Andreas Weigend
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Andreas Sebastian Weigend (born 1961) is the author of the book ''Data for the People'' (Basic Books, 2017). He was a member of Germany's Digital Council under Merkel, ''Digitalrat''. Weigend studied physics and philosophy at the
University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...
and received a PhD in physics from
Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
in 1991. He was the Chief Scientist at
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