Blagovesta Nikolova obtained her PhD in Political Philosophy in 2013 at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has conducted her postdoctoral studies at the University of Namur, Belgium (2015–2017). She has been working and publishing in two thematic directions – the transformation of foresight under the burden of increasing uncertainty, and the prospects of ethical governance of new and emerging technologies. Those two considerations conflate in her monograph The RRI Challenge: Responsibilization in a State of Tension with Market Regulation (2019), and on the pages of prestigious journals such as Society, Journal of Futures Studies, Time & Society, Security Dialogue, European Journal of Futures Research. Since 2016 Dr. Nikolova has been acting as an ethics expert for the European Research Executive Agency in the evaluation of research projects within Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe framework programs.