Professor Susanne Brucksch

Associate Professor at Teikyo University, Tokyo

Susanne Brucksch is Associate Professor at Teikyo University in Tokyo. Before, she was senior research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, visiting scholar at Waseda University in 2016, and at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Innovation and Competition in Munich in November 2019, and Principal Researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ). Her research has focused on “Technical Innovation and Research Collaboration in Japan: The Field of Biomedical Engineering” and “Humans and Machines in Medical Context: Case Studies from Japan”. In addition, she has held posts as chair of the advisory board of DWIH Tokyo (German Centre for Science and Innovation, since 2019) Tokyo and as board member of VSJF e.V. (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, since 2016). There, she also serves as co-organizer of the STS-Technology-Section.