V. (Volker) Nannen
Volker Nannen received his PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2009. In his dissertation, he explored the use of agent-based simulations for public policy analysis, specifically policies that stimulate technological change. In his work, he developed a computational method to efficiently identify and calibrate parameters relevant to the stability of a complex evolutionary simulation. For this research, he received a Best Paper Award at the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Seattle.
Since 2012, he has served as Scientific Director of sedewa.com, a Spanish startup developing efficient drive technology for sustainable soil management and, following interest from NASA, for planetary exploration.
Since 2021, he has been the Scientific Director of Applied Biosignals GmbH, a leading company in the field of neonatal emergency care technology.
From 2006 to 2010, he worked on the propagation of financial risk in a national trade network in collaboration with researchers from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group in Italy. This work was carried out at the Institute of Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy, and at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems in Palma, Spain.
From 2011 to 2018, he worked in autonomous underwater robotics and autonomous agricultural robotics at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain, the University of Girona in Spain, and the university of Koblenz in Germany.
From 2014 to 2016, he worked with the consultancy Oiko Logica S.L. to develop strategic policies and technical solutions addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as food security, in vulnerable countries and societies.
In 2017, he developed an artificial intelligence curriculum for the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a Program Officer for Artificial Intelligence at the project management agency supporting the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
In 2023, he taught a course on Data Science at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer.