Skip to content
Menu
Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich

Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser

Chair Holder

Picture of Urs Gasser

Phone: +49 (0) 89/ 907793 - 270

E-Mail: urs.gasser@tum.de

Room: B.458

More information

About

Prof. Dr. Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance and Innovative Technology and serves as Rector of the Hochschule für Politik (HfP) and Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. His research focuses on the societal and regulatory implications of new technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technology.

Before joining TUM, he was Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University from 2009 to 2021 and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School since 2013. Previously he held a SNF Professorship at the University of St. Gallen while also serving as Director of the Research Center for Information Law. With a Landon H. Gammon Fellowship, Prof. Gasser graduated with an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

In addition to his responsibilities at TUM, Prof. Gasser serves as an advisor, among others, to the OECD, and UNICEF. Furthermore he is currently a member of the Colombian President's Commission of Experts on AI. He was also a Visiting Professor, among others, at KEIO University Japan, and Singapore Management University.

Key Publications

Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics

Publications, Key Publications Prof. Gasser |

When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records - can we really differentiate between big data and health big data?
Bookcover

edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Effy Vayena and Urs Gasser, Cambridge University Press 2018

Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health care system) as we know it? Will it be possible to protect our health privacy? What barriers will there be to collecting and utilizing health big data? What role should law play, and what ethical concerns may arise?

This timely, groundbreaking volume explores these questions and more from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the health care sphere, and also what we can learn from other sectors.

Read more

◄
To top