Ning Wang

Ning is an ethicist and a political scientist based in Switzerland since 2010. She holds a PhD degree in Biomedical Ethics and Law (2021) from University of Zurich, and two Master’s degrees in Political Science (2011) and Applied Ethics (2008) obtained in Sweden and Norway respectively. In between her academic endeavours, she managed projects related to ethics for international organisations across government, industry, and NGOs. Currently, she carries out research and teaching activities around the notion of «value sensitive innovation» at University of Zurich. As a strong advocate of bottom-up forces for social change, she is dedicated to bridging the gap between science and society, with active engagement in foundations, professional associations, and civil society.

Ning has a broad research interest in the ethical assessment and responsible governance of emerging and future technologies, such as robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence. Through empirical studies, she aims at addressing the ethical, social, legal, and regulatory challenges new technologies pose to society, explore responsive analytical approaches in the understanding and evaluation of them, and propose practical governance tools for the design, development, and use of them. On the normative level, she is interested in exploring philosophical conceptions such as identity, agency, autonomy, responsibility, justice, and the good life. Methodologically, she seeks to draw an empirical perspective into ethics, and a normative perspective into science and technology studies.