Scholar in residence
The Digital Futures ‘Scholar-in-Residence’ programme aims to provide scholars at non-Swedish universities with financial support to enable short and longer-term visits to the Digital Futures environment (minimum 1 month, maximum 12 months). This programme of funding aims to support academics who wish to benefit from a sabbatical within Digital Futures. How this time away from a home institution is used is flexible and for the scholar-in-residence to decide.
Our hope for this programme of funding is to broaden the diversity of those taking part in Digital Futures, to enable new global perspectives on digitalisation research to influence our progress. In all cases, we intend that the scholar-in-residence programme should enrich the activities of Digital Futures through participation in, for example, research, teaching, events, and mentorship of early career researchers.
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Frank Allgöwer
April-August 2022: Frank Allgöwer is director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart. He is a member of selected academic and university bodies as well as national and international organizations, as well as being the publisher and co-publisher of a range of...
John S. Baras
March-May 2022: John S. Baras, Professor at the University of Maryland. is an international authority in systems and control, and a remarkably unique cross-disciplinary researcher and educator. Baras has made significant contributions to diverse research fields such as systems and control...
Benjamin Cowan
August 2022: Benjamin R Cowan is an Associate Professor at UCD's School of Information & Communication Studies. He completed his undergraduate studies in Psychology & Business Studies (2006) and his PhD in Usability Engineering (2011) at the University of Edinburgh...
Fred Cummins
July-August 2022: Fred Cummins is co-director of the cognitive science programme at University College Dublin. He obtained a PhD with a joint major in Cognitive Science and Linguistics in 1997 from Indiana University. His empirical work has been largely concerned with joint speech or chant, as found in prayer...
Ulrich Egert
May-September 2022: Ulrich Egert is a neuroscientist by training and currently a Full Professor for Biomicrotechnology at the Dept. of Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg, Germany. He is a director of the Bernstein Center Freiburg, Freiburg’s inter-faculty Centre for Computational...
Adrian Friday
August 2022: Adrian Friday is a Professor of Computing and Sustainability at Lancaster University, UK. His work focuses on how ubiquitous systems, data and empirical studies reveal the externality and impacts of everyday life and offer new and more sustainable ways of doing.
Richard Harper
September-December 2022: Richard Harper is a professor at Lancaster University Department of Computing and Communications. Originally trained as a sociologist but now a computer scientist, Richard is concerned with how new technologies shape us and how we, in turn, shape our technologies...
Jiang Hu
August-December 2022: Jiang Hu is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received a B.S. degree in optical engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 1990, an M.S. degree in physics in 1997 and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2001...
Gesche Joost
August 2022-March 2023: Gesche Joost, Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts, is a researcher, founder, political advisor and tech consultant. She focuses her work on digital transformation and its implications on our society both in her research practice and on the policy level...
Simon Knight
April-June 2023: Simon Knight is Director of the University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Research on Education in a Digital Society (UTS: CREDS), previous co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics, and Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Award (DECRA) Fellow...
Diane Litman
February-August 2022: Diane Litman is a Professor of Computer Science, Senior Scientist with the Learning Research and Development Center, and Past (Co-)Director of the Graduate Program in Intelligent Systems, all at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interdisciplinary research spans multiple areas...
Pei Wang
September-November 2022: Pei Wang received his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Peking University in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and worked as a teacher at Peking University from 1986 to 1991. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Indiana University...
Chathuranga Weeraddana
March-May 2022: Chathuranga Weeraddana is currently working as a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests include the application of optimization techniques in various application domains, such as signal processing, wireless...