Manouchehr Shamsrizi is "among the most publicly prominent voices of Germany's younger generation" (Washington Post) and is "involved wherever the improvement of political conditions still has a lot of room for improvement" (re:publica). He conducts research at Humboldt University, whose gamelab.berlin he co-founded, and as a fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations, and teaches on the social impact of future technologies at Leuphana University Lüneburg and on the "metaphysics of metal" at the Wacken Metal Academy. He is also co-founder of the startup RetroBrain R&D GmbH. He has served as a Global Justice Fellow at Yale University and an Ariane de Rothschild Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has been selected as a CAPITAL "Young Elite - 40 under 40", Fellow of the Royal Society of Art, Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum, and for the "Next Generation" Forum of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. He is involved in various think tanks on issues of theories and practice of justice of Digital Transformation, as well as in advisory boards / boards of trustees among others. of the Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World, BIOTOPIA Natural History Museum Bavaria, the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Values (a cooperation of Leuphana University Lüneburg with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus, co-initiated by him), Common Purpose Germany, and as Chair of the Advisory Board of Malteser Campus St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was a speaker at the Bellevue Forum of German President Joachim Gauck as well as an invited participant at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit of US President Barack Obama in Silicon Valley and the "Vatican Davos", the "Economy of Francesco" congress initiated by Pope Francis.