Eric Hilgendorf

Eric Hilgendorf

Background

Head of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Legal Theory, Information and Computer Science Law, University of Würzburg, Germany. His main areas of interest and research are legal challenges of new technologies with respect to media, internet and computers, AI, medicine and biotechnology. Hilgendorf is a member of the German Ethics Committee on Automated Driving and of the EU´s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Moreover, he is one of the directors of the newly founded Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (BIDT).