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Project team

Project evolution

Work on the project began in 2019 by a team of several people at the Science and Technology Studies (STS) Center at the European University at St. Petersburg. In 2020, the team received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, which expired in early 2023. Website development began in the summer of 2023. Over the course of four years, the team worked on collecting, analyzing, and visualizing the data.

Project team

Nikolay Rudenko, PhD in Sociology, STS scholar, author of the idea.

Andrey Valov, MSc in Innovation Studies and Sociology, data analyst.

Maria Kiseleva, MSc in Innovation Studies and Sociology, research fellow at the Berlin Ethics Lab, TU Berlin.

Mari Schick Alshabab, MSc in Innovation Studies and Sociology.

Svetlana Tambovtseva, PhD in Philology, literary editor for the website.

Andrey Kuznetsov, PhD in Sociology, author of the project title, research fellow at the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE).

Lilia Zemnukhova, PhD in Sociology, postdoc at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

Anastasia Kitaeva, MSc in Innovation Studies and Sociology, data analyst.

Sergey Astakhov, PhD in Philosophy, STS postdoc at the University of Southampton.

Denis Kvasnyuk, is MSc in Innovation Studies and Sociology, data analyst.

Acknowledgments

We thank Olga Bychkova, Head of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg at the time of the project, for her support, inspiration, and many years of fruitful work.

We thank the Russian Science Foundation and the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE).

Our publications

You can find our other work on autonomous vehicle (in Russian) at the following links:

  • Publications on the results of the project, as well as other materials, are available on the page of the Center for Science and Technology Research of the European University
  • Techinsider Portal: A series of articles on autonomous cars
  • Full list of publications and materials can be found by this link