Paul Trauttmansdorff
At the TUM Think Tank, Paul serve as Education Lead of the Ethical Data Initiative, where he develops educational resources and teaching materials that help address issues such as inequity and discrimination in data work and environments. He is also a Friedrich Schiedel Fellow, where his work examines how bodily data are collected, processed and stored, how they become actionable knowledge, and how they travel between different sociotechnical domains such as security, surveillance, and medicine.
About Paul
Alongside his work at the TUM Think Tank, Paul is a postdoctoral researcher at TUM’s Chair for Philosophy and History of Science and Technology. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the European New School of Digital Studies, European University Viadrina, and the University of Bologna. He completed his PhD in 2022 at the University of Vienna’s Department of Science and Technology Studies, researching how imaginaries of future borders shaped European migration-control databases.
Beyond the Bio
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Ask Paul about
Data infrastructures · data ethics and justice · borders, security, and mobilities · biometrics
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Open to
Collaboration · Student supervision · Speaking · Media inquiries
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Worth a look
Reflecting on and engaging in more responsible and equitable research practices, for example via the Munich Manifesto for Equitable Open Science
