António Brandão Moniz is Associate Professor (since 1999) of Sociology at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), with habilitation for Full Professorship since 2001. Is coordinator of the PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" (UNL) from 2009. Since 2011 he is also Senior Researcher of the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Is Director of the Observatory of Technology Assessment (OAT) of CICS.NOVA centre (since 2015). He is also a member of the Strategic Committee of CICS.NOVA centre. He is member of the Topic Group Natural Interaction with Social Robots, and of the Topics Group "Ethical, Legal and Socio-Economic Issues" both from the European euRobotics platform. Coordinates the national Agenda of Research & Innovation on "Work, robotization and employment qualification in Portugal" (Ministry of Science and Technology).

Research Interests:

Technology Assessment. Sociology of Technology. Sociology of Innovation. Human-Technology Interaction.

Main Projects:

• Sustainable Human Resource Management in the Context of Emerging Technologies, ISM Lithuania;
• Dynamics of Virtual Work (COST action, European Commission);
• Additive Bio-Manufacturing: 3D Printing for Medical Recovery and Human Enhancement (STOA-European Parliament);
• Social implications of robotics in manufacturing industry (IR@MI), KIT;
• Work Organization and Restructuring of Knowledge Society (WORKS), European Commission.

• Moniz, A. B. (2018). Robótica e trabalho: O future hoje (Robotics and work: The future today). Lisboa: Glaciar.
• Moniz, A. B., & Krings, B.-J. (2016). Robots working with humans or humans working with robots? Searching for social dimensions in new human-robot interaction in industry. Societies, (6), 23. doi: 10.3390/soc6030023
• Moniz, A. B., & Okuwada, K. (Eds.) (2016). Technology assessment in Japan and Europe. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing. doi: 10.5445/KSP/1000048740
• Moniz, A. B. (2015). Robots and humans as co-workers? The human-centred perspective of work with autonomous systems. In M. Gutmann, M. Decker, & J. Knifka (Orgs.), Evolutionary robotics, organic computing and adaptive ambience. Epistemological and ethical implications of technomorphic descriptions of technologies (pp. 147-175). Wien: LIT.
• Moniz, A. B. (2015). Intuitive interaction between humans and robots in work functions at industrial environments: The role of social robotics. In J. Vincent, S. Taipale, B. Sapio, G. Lugano, & L. Fortunati (Orgs.), Social robots from a human perspective (pp. 67-76). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15672-9_6