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Stefan Selke
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Stefan Selke

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Affiliations
  • Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences HFU
  • founder of the “Public Science Lab” (2021)
Research topics
  • Social transformations, creeping change, civilizational change
  • Social utopias, techno-utopias, space exploration
  • Digitalization and artificial intelligence
  • Transformative and public science
Stefan Selke first studied aerospace engineering, then sociology, philosophy, anthropogeography and literature (Portuguese/Spanish). He received his doctorate in sociology in 2001. In 2008, Selke was appointed to teach “Sociology of Digital Media” at Furtwangen University, where he has represented the “Social Change” department since 2011 following a reassignment of the professorship. Selke was the founding Dean of Studies for the “Applied Health Sciences” course, Vice Dean of the “Health, Safety, Society” faculty and Senate Representative for Sustainable Development. Selke is currently a research professor for “Transformative and Public Science”. He founded the Public Science Lab, which provides information on methods, theories and fields of application of public science and makes contributions within and outside the academic world.
Selected publications

Academic positions & activities

He has been a research professor for Transformative and Public Science at HFU since 2015 and founded the Public Science Lab in 2021. Previously, he held professorships in Sociology of Digital Media (2008-2011) and Social Change (since 2011).

He was Visiting Professor for Public Science at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro (2025-), for Artificial Intelligence at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (2025) and ESA Research Fellow for Space Flight and Future Narrative (2023). Other guest professorships have taken him to the Universities of Huddersfield, Salzburg, Vienna and the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, among others.

He is active in numerous advisory boards, research associations and specialist journals, editor of the book series Public Science and Social Change and co-author of 15 edited volumes, 9 monographs and around 150 articles.

Non-academic activities & awards

He cooperates with the Schader Foundation, museums, theaters and artists in the field of public science and is regularly present in the media (approx. 50 TV, 150 radio broadcasts, 100 print articles). In 2021, he was awarded the Wolfgang Heilmann Prize by the Integrata Foundation for the NeoUniversity concept, which combines human and artificial intelligence.