On 23rd and 24th of June, I participated in the 2nd Conference on Large-scale AI Risks (LSAIR) @ KU Leuven. Despite the heat, it was a very engaging and stimulating two-day event, hosted in the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage’s Grand Beguinage. The conference gathered together scholars, policymakers, and consultants, providing a diverse spectrum of expertise,…

Very glad to have participated in the workshop Building Quantum Futures at Aarhus University on 8-9 June (exactly 10 years since my PhD defense at the University of Leeds!) Great discussions, ideas, and projects on how to envision responsible sociotechnical futures for the development, use and implementation of quantum information technologies (QITs). On my part,…

Our open access article “Enabling the EU’s digital sovereignty: A Europe-level quantum internet as the key infrastructure for a European digital polity” is out in the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. This publication is the outcome of 1.5 year of work together with Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu) and Martino Travagnin (colleague at the Joint Research…

On the 8th and 9th of April, I was very glad to be back to Tallinn University of Technology to participate in a workshop on “Data Migration and Mobilities“, organised by Anu Masso (with whom I collaborated at Taltech from 2019 to 2021) and Rob Kitchin (Maynooth University). In my presentation, titled “The Digital as…

On the 12th of February, I delivered an online lunch talk as part of the SciArt series, organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The talk was titled “The Quantum Ecology: Ideas for Innovative Policymaking and the Governance of Quantum Information Technologies“. In the talk, I…

I am glad to advertise the opening of the Topical Collection (TC) Untangling the Quantum Ecology: Charting the Impact of Quantum Theory and Quantum Technologies on Technoscience and the Digital Transformation, guest edited by myself and Prof. Robert Braun (Centre of Advanced Studies, Vienna) in the journal Digital Society. The TC remains open from the…