Helene von Schwichow
Researcher & Project Manager
Contact
- Room: B.263
- E-Mail: helene.schwichow[at]tum.de
Résumé
Helene von Schwichow has been a research assistant at the Professorship for Policy Analysis since February 2022 and conducts research on social sustainability issues in AI and smart city contexts as part of her PhD project.
In the bidt-funded teaching and research project sustAInability - Perspectives and Prototypes, she investigates the potentials and challenges of AI technologies for sustainable development together with students and supports German municipalities in a sustainable digital transformation as Research Advisor of the Urban Digitainability Lab at the TUM Think Tank.
From 2022 to 2023, she was also responsible for the project “Digitainability: Promoting Responsibility & Implementing Innovations on a Project-Basis” at the Chair of Policy Analysis and was a fellow in the BMWK-funded Transatlantic Digital Debates program in 2022.
Before working at TUM, she was the founder and managing director of the independent think tank MOTIF Institute for Digital Culture (2018-2021), where she conducted research and advised organizations and policymakers on equitable tech. In this context, she published a research report on women's experiences in the platform economy on behalf of the Third Equality Report of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. She worked with numerous project partners, such as the Federal Ministry of Justice or the CityLAB Berlin. Please visit (https://motif-institute.com/) for a full portfolio and list of publications. For her work with MOTIF, she was recognized as a list maker of the „30 under 30“list by Forbes magazine in the DACH tech category and as a finalist for the European Commission's New European Bauhaus Prize.
From 2019 to 2020, she also worked as a network coordinator for the European Hub of the global internet research network "Network of Centers" at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.
She studied in Berlin and Paris and holds a master’s in Communication in Social and Economic Contexts from the Berlin University of the Arts.