Sabina Leonelli

Roles

Professor of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology (W3), Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University of Munich; Research Director of Ethical Data Initiative; Co- Director of the TUM Public Science Lab; Fellow Academia Europaea, AcademiaNet, Académie Internationale de Philosophie de la Science, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association & Royal Society of Biology.

Contact

Address: Professorship Philosophy and History of Science, SOT, Archisstrasse 21, 80333 Müchen, Germany
Email: sabina.leonelli@tum.de
Mobile: +49 173 173 0321 (DE); +447726623895 (UK), +393477281002 (IT)
Webpages:

  • TUM: https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/leonelli-sabina
  • Exeter University: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/research/sts/egenis/staff/leonelli
  • Data Studies: https://datastudies.eu
  • Open Science Studies: https://opensciencestudies.eu
  • LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/sabina-leonelli-a878673b
  • Bsky: @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/2xFNzPa
  • Scopus: 8930372000
  • Orcid#: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7815-6609

About

I am Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where I direct the Ethical Data Initiative and co-direct the TUM Public Science Lab. Until 2024 I was Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis, 2013-2024) and lead of research on “Data Governance, Openness and Ethics” for the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) at the University of Exeter, where I hold a Honorary Professorship. I serve as President-Elect of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology; Council member for the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology; Associate Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review; and Subject Editor for Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. I have been awarded many competitive grants including two European Research Council awards, “The Philosophy of Data-Intensive Science” (2014-2019) and “A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” (2021-2026). I regularly engage in science policy and governance of data infrastructures, advising bodies including European Commission, Royal Society, FAIR-IMPACT and Italian National Centre for Big Data, High Performance and Quantum Computing. I have served as Vice-President of the European Association for the Philosophy of Science (2019-2023), Editor-in-Chief of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2019-2023), Open Science lead for the Global Young Academy (2014-2017). I am the recipient of a University of Tilburg Honorary Doctorate (2023), 2021-2022 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Fellowship and 2024 Kluge Chair in Technology and Society from the Library of Congress. My 2016 book Data-Centric Biology won the Lakatos Award (2018) and Patrick Suppes Prize for Philosophy of Science (2022).

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Last updated September 2024