Roman Jurowetzki

Roman Jurowetzki

Associate Professor of Innovation & Applied Data Science

Aalborg University Business School / CAISA Chief Scientist / AI Denmark Project Lead

Combining innovation studies with data-driven methods to understand and govern emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. Research focuses on developing socio-technical frameworks for responsible AI deployment and evaluation.

Research Interests

Innovation dynamics AI governance NLP & scientometrics Science & technology policy Computational social science Global value chains

Teaching & Outreach

  • Co-founder & coordinator, MSc Business Data Science, AAU
  • Social Data Science Semester, AAU
  • AI/NLP methods in Business, University of Strasbourg (annual)
  • Digital Innovation, UCAS/SDC Innovation Mgmt. Master
  • Collaborates with UNESCO and G20 on AI Ethics & Regulation

Current Projects

Chief Scientist

Leading research on AI evaluation and quality benchmarking. Cross-university centre bridging technical AI research with social science and humanities.

Green Transition Policy Centre (GreenTraC)
AAU Principal Investigator • Carlsberg Foundation

Comprehensive theory of green transition policy across Scandinavia via a multi-source database using NLP and network analysis to map key actors.

Project Lead (AAU)

Supporting AI deployment in Danish SMEs since 2021.

Side project

AI-powered academic assistant for literature review & text-to-speech.

Selected Publications

2025
Report
Toolkit to Reduce Inequalities Connected to the Use of Artificial Intelligence
Squicciarini, M., Jurowetzki, R., & Pfeiffer, C. — UNESCO / G20 South Africa Presidency
Brief
Artificial General Intelligence and its Societal Implications
Sogaard, A., Rogers, A., Adler-Nissen, R., Belongie, S., Moeslund, T. B., & Jurowetzki, R. — CAISA
Journal
The private sector is hoarding AI researchers: what implications for science?
Jurowetzki, R., Hain, D. S., Wirtz, K., & Bianchini, S. — AI & Society 40(5), 4145–4152
Journal
The hopes and fears of artificial intelligence: a comparative computational discourse analysis
Elmholdt, K. T., Nielsen, J. A., Florczak, C. K., Jurowetzki, R., & Hain, D. — AI & Society 40(6), 4765–4782
Workshop
Using reasoning for citation context classification
Larsen, B. & Jurowetzki, R. — SCOLIA '25, CEUR-WS Vol. 4022, pp. 4–10
Conf.
Mapping AI's Labor Impact: A Task Exposure Framework for Occupational Analysis
Jurowetzki, R., Abbonato, D., & Squicciarini, M. — Conference paper, 40 pp.
2024
Journal
PatentSBERTa: A deep NLP-based hybrid model for patent distance and classification using augmented SBERT
Bekamiri, H., Hain, D. S., & Jurowetzki, R. — Technological Forecasting and Social Change 206, 123536
2023
Journal
Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue
Holm, J. R., Hain, D. S., Jurowetzki, R., & Lorenz, E. — Industry and Innovation 30(9), 1141–1155
2022
Journal
A text-embedding-based approach to measuring patent-to-patent technological similarity
Hain, D. S., Jurowetzki, R., Buchmann, T., & Wolf, P. — Technological Forecasting and Social Change 177, 121559
2018
Journal
Combining innovation systems and global value chains for development: Towards a research agenda
Jurowetzki, R., Lema, R., & Lundvall, B. Å. — European Journal of Development Research 30(3), 364–388

News

Nov 2025
Co-authored the UNESCO Toolkit on reducing AI-connected inequalities, prepared for the South Africa G20 Presidency.
Nov 2025
CAISA published research briefs on AGI and its societal implications and a modular approach to digital sovereignty in Denmark.
May 2025
Appointed Chief Scientist at CAISA (National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Society) during the centre's official launch.

Contact

Email
roman@business.aau.dk
Office
Fibigerstræde 11, Room 103
DK-9220 Aalborg Øst, Denmark
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