The Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum is one of the world's most important platforms for exchange between science, politics, business, and society. Every year, over a thousand leading experts, scientists and politicians from around the world meet there to discuss key issues of the future.
Together with three other scientists, Malte Göttsche was nominated by the Leibniz Association to participate in the Forum. At the STS Forum's “Young Leaders Meeting,” they exchange their ideas with several Nobel Prize winners before attending the main conference, which is opened by the Japanese imperial couple.
The main topics of this year's main conference include sustainability and climate as well as health. For PRIF, the role of science diplomacy, research security, and artificial intelligence and its regulation in the context of geopolitical upheavals are particularly relevant. The aim of the researchers is to strengthen their international networks and to contribute their own research to the global discourse.
The three other nominated Leibniz scientists are Genet Asefa Gesese from FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Melanie Köhler from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, and Ahmed Abdelfattah from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB).
Malte Göttsche is Professor for Peace Research in Natural Sciences at PRIF and TU Darmstadt, co-spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence for Natural and Technical Sciences Arms Control Research (CNTR), and head of the Research Group on Science for Nuclear Diplomacy.