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Ibo van de Poel is the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of Ethics of Technology at the Delft University of Technology. He has a master’s degree in Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society, and a propaedeutic exam in Mechanical Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Twente before joining Delft in 1998. He is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Van de Poel’s research focuses on themes in the ethics of technology, including value change, responsible innovation, the design of values, moral acceptability of technological risks, engineering ethics, and moral responsibility in research networks. He has been involved in multiple esteemed research projects, including receiving a prestigious VICI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2010 and an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018 for his work on the design of changing values in sociotechnical systems. He is also a principal investigator for a ten-year Gravitation project on Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies.
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