Moral luck in science and innovation: Martin Sand to start as Postdoc at VTI

This August, Martin Sand will start as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Values, Technology and Innovation. His application for the LEaDing Fellows Postdocs Programme was recently approved.

His research will focus on moral luck, which plays a crucial role in science and innovation. This challenges our understanding of individual responsibility and may undermine the ambition to govern science and innovation processes responsibly. The project aims to advance the understanding of the role of luck and to develop an original approach to deal with its philosophical implications. This will contribute to important debates about Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI).

Martin obtained his PhD in 2017, at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The title of his thesis is “Futures, Visions and Responsibility: An Ethics of Innovation”.

LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Programme

This LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Programme offers grants to provide a total of 90 researchers from abroad (who recently obtained a PhD) with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience at TU Delft, Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam or Erasmus Medical Centre. The positions are offered in three rounds of calls.