Max Roßmann

Maximilian Roßmann, M.A.

  • Scientific staff until 2022
  • resigned
  • Research group “Socio-Technical Futures and Policies”

  • Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
    Postfach 3640
    76021 Karlsruhe

Fields of work

  • Analysis of imagined futures and their influence on present technology development in the contexts of bioeconomy, scalable 3D printing, and radioactive waste.
  • Practice and theory of models and narratives at the interface of science, policy and society.
  • Philosophy and sociology of science and technology, empirical social research, systems theory

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Professional background

2008 - 2009 Evonik Industries, in Hanau-Wolfgang, Business area: R&D, Health & Nutrition, Methionine (Internship: Process engineering and control)
2008 - 2012 B.Sc. in Chemical Technology at Mannheim University of applied sciences. Thesis: “Reduction reactions in the fixed-bed gasification of biomass”
2010 - 2011 Universidade Estadual Paulista in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto de Geociências e Ciencias Exatas (Internship: Environmental and radiochemistry)
2011 - 2012 Fraunhofer Institute for solar energy systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Business area: Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (thesis and graduate assistant)
2012 - 2014 Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TU München (graduate assistant)
2012 - 2015 M.A. in Philosophy of Science and Technology at TU München. Thesis: “Legitimation and Public Participation - Theoretical Foundation by the Example of the Expansion of the Power Grid”
2017 - 2022 Doctoral student and member of scientific staff at ITAS

Publications


2024
Presentations
Bareis, J.; Roßmann, M.
Technology Hypes: How to deal with inappropriate exaggeration?
2024. Nurkse Reading Seminars (2024), Online, April 11, 2024 
2023
Journal Articles
Bareis, J.; Roßmann, M.; Bordignon, F.
Technology hypes: Practices, approaches and assessments
2023. TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 32 (3), 11–16. doi:10.14512/tatup.32.3.11 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Schneider, C.; Roßmann, M.; Lösch, A.; Grunwald, A.
Transformative Vision Assessment and 3-D Printing Futures: A New Approach of Technology Assessment to Address Grand Societal Challenges
2023. IEEE transactions on engineering management, 70 (3), 1089–1098. doi:10.1109/TEM.2021.3129834 
2022
Book Chapters
Heil, R.; Dobroć, P.; Frey, P.; Hausstein, A.; Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Einleitung: Von Zukunftsvisionen zum Vision Assessment
2022. Vision Assessment : Theoretische Reflexionen zur Erforschung soziotechnischer Zukünfte. Hrsg.: P. Frey, 1–14, KIT Scientific Publishing Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Books
Dobroć, P.; Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M. (Eds.)
Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures. Prerequisites and limits
2022. SpringerOpen 
Frey, P.; Dobroć, P.; Hausstein, A.; Heil, R.; Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Vision Assessment: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Erforschung soziotechnischer Zukünfte
2022. KIT Scientific Publishing. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000142150 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Journal Articles
Smeddinck, U.; Roßmann, M.
Narrative als Regulierung? Grundlagen, Ansätze, Verfassungsrecht
2022. Deutsches Verwaltungsblatt, 137 (3), 137–145 
Presentations
Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider , C.
Transformative Vision Assessment: A Methodology for Shaping Responsible and Sustainable Digital Futures in Science and Society
2022. 5th European Technology Assessment Conference (ETAC5 2022), Karlsruhe, Germany, July 25–27, 2022 
2021
Book Chapters
Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Vision Assessment als sozio-epistemische Praxis
2021. Technikfolgenabschätzung. Hrsg.: S. Böschen, 337–351, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990-337 
Presentations
Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Zukunftspfade des 3D Drucks in unserer Gesellschaft
2021. Zukunftspfade des 3D Drucks in unserer Gesellschaft: Scenario workshop des ITAS/KIT (2021), Online, October 20, 2021 
Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
From Visions Towards Scenarios for Future Additive Manufacturing in Society
2021. Future 3D Additive Manufacturing – the 3DMM2O Conference 2021: 3D Hybrid Organotypic Systems (2021), Online, March 1–4, 2021 
2020
Book Chapters
Rösch, C.; Roßmann, M.
Mikroalgen statt Fleisch und Soja – die Ernährung der Zukunft?
2020. Bioökonomie nachhaltig gestalten. Hrsg.: W. Konrad, 343–364, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-29433-5_13 
Roßmann, M.; Stratmann, M.; Rötzer, N.; Schäfer, P.; Schmidt, M.
Comparability of LCAs - Review and Discussion of the Application Purpose
2020. Progress in Life Cycle Assessment 2019. Eds.: Stefan Albrecht, Matthias Fischer, Philip Leistner, Liselotte Schebeck, 213–225, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50519-6_15 
Presentations
Baliga, A.; Roßmann, M.
Democratic Legitimation or Naturalized Evolution? How Prototyping Urban Futures Risks Democratic Participation of Urban Stakeholders
2020. Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds (EASST/4S 2020), Online, August 18–21, 2020 
Lösch, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Vision Assessment in the Cluster of Excellence: 3D Matter Made to Order
2020. Online Presentation for the Cluster of Excellence 3DMM20, KIT Karlsruhe (2020), Online, December 10, 2020 
Roßmann, M.
Visions as Make-believe: How Models and Narratives Represent Sociotechnical Futures
2020. Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and agency of STS in emerging worlds (EASST/4S 2020), Online, August 18–21, 2020 
Roßmann, M.; Berg, M.; Bräuer, P.
Narrative im Standortauswahlverfahren
2020. TRANSENS Arbeitstreffen (2020), Karlsruhe, Germany, November 2–4, 2020 
Journal Article Reviews
Roßmann, M.
Prototyping Society
2020. TATuP, 29 (1), 67–68, Oekom Verlag. doi:10.14512/tatup.29.1.67 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
2019
Presentations
Dobroć, P.; Roßmann, M.; Lösch, A.
Visions as socio-epistemic practices: Foundation and application in Technology Assessment
2019. Technology, Innovation and Society for visitors of the Baumann Moscow State Technical University (2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, January 23, 2019 
Lösch, A.; Hausstein, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Report Vision Assessment Studie
2019. Coordinating Committee Meeting 3DMM20 (2019), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 12, 2019 
Lösch, A.; Hausstein, A.; Roßmann, M.; Schneider, C.
Vision Assessment on the societal implications of scalable 3D printing
2019. Feedbackdialog des Projekts Vision Assessment des skalierbaren 3D Drucks im Exzellenzcluster 3D Matter Made to Order (2019), Heidelberg, Germany, July 18, 2019 
Stratmann, M.; Schäfer, P.; Rötzer, N.; Roßmann, M.
Vergleichbarkeit von LCAs - Review und Diskussion des Anwendungszwecks
2019. Ökobilanzwerkstatt (2019), Stuttgart, Germany, September 17–19, 2019 
2018
Book Chapters
Roßmann, M.; Hafner, T.
Sustainable risk management in technics, robotics ad cyber-security: An introduction
2018. Sustainable Risk Management. Ed.: P.A. Wilderer, 199–207, Springer International Publishing 
Journal Articles
Rösch, C.; Roßmann, M.; Weickert, S.
Microalgae for integrated food and fuel production
2018. Global change biology / Bioenergy, 11 (SI, 1), 326–334. doi:10.1111/gcbb.12579 
Roßmann, M.
Narrative self-reference and the assessment of knowledge
2018. Journal of Sociocybernetics, 15 (2), 38–51. doi:10.26754/ojs_jos/jos.201822630 
Roßmann, M.
Open Codes machen noch keine offene Gesellschaft. „Kollektivität und Macht im Internet“
2018. TATuP: Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 27 (2), 74–75. doi:10.14512/tatup.28.2.74 Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document 
Presentations
Rösch, C.; Roßmann, M.
Key narratives on microalgae for food production
2018. Congress FOOD 2030: Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems (2018), Stuttgart, Germany, September 5–6, 2018 
Rösch, C.; Roßmann, M.
Transdisciplinary development of narratives on algae-based food
2018. 8th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts (2018), Seattle, WA, USA, June 11–13, 2018 
Rösch, C.; Roßmann, M.
Wandel in der Ernährung: Visionen der Nahrungsmittelproduktion aus Mikroalgen
2018. Workshop “Bioökonomie nachhaltig gestalten”, Universität Hohenheim (2018), Stuttgart, Germany, February 28, 2018 
Roßmann, M.
Narrative self-reference and the assessment of knowledge. Part of PhD project on computational narratives in bioeconomy (Max Roßmann) 26.09.2018
2018. The Role of the Future in Economic and Political Sociology. Joint PhD Seminar of Sciences Po (2018), Cologne, Germany, September 24–26, 2018 
Roßmann, M.
Computational narratives - philosophical reflections on Jupyter notebook
2018. Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN 2018), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 10–13, 2018 
Roßmann, M.; Grünke, P.
Models, narratives and the assessment of knowledge
2018. OZSW Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy (2018), Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 9–11, 2018 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
The interplay of data-models and narratives: Visions of an algae-based nutritium?
2018. 4th Post-Normal Science Symposium (PNS 2018), Barcelona, Spain, November 15–17, 2018 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Erbsenzähler und Visionäre? Philosophie und Sozialpsychologie in der Innovationsforschung zur Ernährung aus Mikroalgen
2018. Frauen-Akademie der VHS Karlsruhe, 23.April 2018 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Projects in bioeconomic research: Visions of an algae-based nutrition
2018. Workshop for Product Development (2018), Stuttgart-Hohenheim, March 13, 2018 
Posters
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Key-narratives of microalgae nutrition
2018. 4. Statusseminar des Forschungsprogramms Bioökonomie Baden-Württemberg (2019), Stuttgart-Hohenheim, January 8, 2019 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Key-narratives of microalgae nutrition. A public Delphi-survey in Germany
2018. 4th Post-Normal Science Symposium (PNS 2018), Barcelona, Spain, November 15–17, 2018 
2017
Book Chapters
Roßmann, M.; Hafner, T.
Sustainable risk management concerning technics, robotics and cyber-systems: An introduction
2017. Sustainable Risk Management. Strategies for Sustainability. Ed.: P. Wilderer, 199–207, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66233-6_18 
Presentations
Roßmann, M.
Post-narrative assessment?
2017. ‘Post-truth’ and a crisis of trust? : Perspectives from Post-Normal Science and Extended Citizen Participation, Tübingen, September 25-26, 2017 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Guiding images, visions and narrative scenarios of an algae-based nutrition
2017. 2nd International Bioeconomy Congress, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, September 12-13, 2017 
Roßmann, M.; Rösch, C.
Scenarios for the application of microalgae as food
2017. Meeting of the Research Area Microalgae, University of Hohenheim, April 27, 2017