The Centre Responsible Digitality is organised as a virtual, Hesse-wide network. It links and bundles scientific expertise in the interdisciplinary field of digitality. For this purpose, participating scientists can use various collaboration and transfer formats. Cooperation is carried out across universities and university types. All Hessian universities and several Hessian universities of applied sciences are involved in current activities.
Board of Directors
Scientific Director is Prof. Dr. Petra Gehring (Philosophy of Knowledge and Technology as well as current references to Digital Policy, Law and Ethics).
Vice directors are Prof. Dr. Florian Möslein (Civil Law, German and European Business Law) and Prof. Dr. Michael Bäuerle (Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Sociology of Law)
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Hessische Hochschule für öffentliches Management und Sicherheit
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Spokespersons of the Project Groups
Each project group is headed by two participating scientists from different universities in Hesse. These spokespersons are also involved in ZEVEDI’s project group plenum.
Spokesperson
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Deputy
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Spokesperson
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
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Deputy
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Spokesperson
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Deputy
EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht
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Spokesperson
Hochschule Fulda
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Deputy
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Spokesperson
Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Deputy
Universität Gießen
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Spokesperson
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Deputy
Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Office
The ZEVEDI office is located at Technische Universität Darmstadt and headed by Dr. Jörn Laakmann and Dr. Christian Person. The office team supports the board of directors as well as ZEVEDI project groups in carrying out operational tasks. It also promotes activities in the areas of transfer and communication.
Team
Head
joern.laakmann [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 1624263
Head
christian.person [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24597
Transfer and Economic Cooperation
luigi.degaudenzi [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24447
Financial Administration
thomas.stuehler [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24446
Media & Public Relations
ilyas.oezsen [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24739
Podcast Digitalgespräch
marlene.goerger [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24078
Editor Science Communication
eneia.dragomir [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24449
Editor Science Communication
konstantin.schoenfelder [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24448
Externally funded projects
ZEVEDI positions itself as a strong research partner on a national and international level and participates with its scientists in the application and implementation of corresponding externally funded collaborative projects. External funding expands the range of relevant activities and supports development of ZEVEDI’s research profile.
Project Team Data trustees
Project Coordination DaTNet
andreas.brenneis [at] tu-darmstadt.de
Project Coordination ReFo_Dat
christian.person [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24597
Project Team Member DaTNet
joern.laakmann [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 1624263
Project Team Member DaTNet
till.seidemann [at] tu-darmstadt.de
Project Team Member DaTNet
marlin.mayer[at] tu-darmstadt.de
Project Team Member DaTNet
sonja.daum [at] tu-darmstadt.de
more about joint project EuroDaT
more about joint project ReFo_DaT
more about joint project DaTNet
Project Team eFin & Democracy
erik.meyer [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24602
laura.grosser [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24459
caroline.marburger[at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24617
eneia.dragomir [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24449
konstantin.schoenfelder [at] zevedi.de
+49 6151 16 24448
Advisory Board
The ZEVEDI Advisory Board brings together key institutional players and external experts involved in ZEVEDI. The external experts contribute their technical expertise and, above all, their organisational and institutional experience at the interface between science, business and political administration.
Constitutive meeting of the ZEVEDI Advisory Board on 22 January 2026
From left: Dr Werner Nickel, Prof. Dr Florian Möslein, Prof. Dr Tanja Brühl, Prof. Dr Petra Gehring, Prof. Dr Kristina Sinemus, Prof. Dr Gabriele Gramelsberger, Stefan Bender, Stephanie Kaiser, Dr Jean Enno Charton
Chair: Stefan Bender, Head of the Research Data and Service Centre (FDSZ), Deutsche Bundesbank.
Further members are:
Prof. Dr. Kristina Sinemus, State Minister for Digitalisation and Innovation of the State of Hesse (HMD)
Christoph Degen, State Secretary, Hessian Ministry for Science and Research, Arts and Culture (HMWK)
Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl, President of TU Darmstadt
Dr. Jean Enno Charton, Director, Digital Ethics & Bioethics, Merck KGaA
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger, Chair of Theory of Science and Technology, RWTH Aachen University
Stephanie Kaiser, Chief Product Officer, DigitalService GmbH of the Federal Government, Berlin
Frank Krüger, Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation
