Professor Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D.

Present position

	Professor em., Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
	President ERC (European Research Council) as of March 1st 2010, Vice-President, ERC Scientific Council (European Research Council), 2007-2010; Founding Member and Vice-Chair of the ERC Scientific Council, since 2005
	Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna, 2005-
	Chair of the Programme Committee, European Science Open Forum, Torino 2010
	Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Science at Uppsala, 2002
	Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, 2007-
	Member, Holberg Prize Academic Committee, 2008-

Institutional address
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
Währingerstrasse 3/14
AT-1090 Vienna
Austria
email: helga.nowotny@wwtf.at
personal homepage: www.helga-nowotny.eu

Nationality Austrian

Principal research interests

		Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
		Science, Technology and Innovation Policy; Sience and Society
		Social Time
		Risk, environment, sustainability
		Epistemology and social organisation of social sciences and humanities

Education/Qualification

	Habilitation in sociology,Grund- und Integrativwissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Vienna, 1982
	Habilitation in sociology, Faculty for Sociology, University of Bielefeld, FRG, 1980
	Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York, 1969
	Doctor juris, University of Vienna, 1959
	Matura with honours, Vienna, 1955

Professional career/past positions

	Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich, 1996-2002
	Director of Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, 1998-2002
	Founding Director "Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship", ETH Zurich, 2002-2004
	Professor of Social Studies of Science, Institute for Theory and Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna, 1987-1996
	Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest/Institute of Advanced Study, Budapest, 1992-1996
	Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1981-1982, 2003-2004
	Chair of EURAB, European Research Advisory Board, European Commission, 2001-2006
	Member of the Board (Kuratorium) Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996-2007
	Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 1990, 1992, Maitre d'Etudes, 1987
	Guest Professor, University of Bielefeld, 1978-1979
	Executive and Founding Director of the European Centre, 1974-1987
	Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, UK, 1972-1973
	Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1969-1972
	Assistant Professor, University of Vienna, Institute of Criminology, 1960-1964

Selected and Recent Book Publications

	Die Gläsernen Gene, Die Erfindung des Individuums im molekularen Zeitalter, (with Giuseppe Testa), Frankfurt a.M.: Edition Unseld, Suhrkamp 2009
	Insatiable Curiosity. Innovation in a Fragile Future, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2008
	Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (ed.), New York, London: Berghahn Books, 2006
	Unersättliche Neugier: Innovation in einer fragilen Zukunft, Berlin: Kadmos Verlag, 2005, Curiosità insaziabile. Lìnnovazione in un futuro fragile. Torino: Codice edizioni, 2006
	The Public Nature of Science under Assault: Politics, Markets, Science and the Law. Heidelberg, New York: Springer 2005 (with D. Pestre, E. Schmidt-Aßmann, H. Schulze-Fielitz, H.H. Trute)
	Imaginierte Laien. Die Macht der Vorstellung in wissenschaftlichen Expertisen. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2004 (with P. Gisler, M. Guggenheim, A. Maranta, C.Pohl)
	Re-Thinking Science. Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty. Oxford: Polity, 2001 (with P. Scott, M. Gibbons)
	The New Production of Knowledge. The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies, London: Sage 1994 (with M. Gibbons, C. Limoges, S. Schwartzman, P. Scott, M. Trow)
	After the Breakthrough: the emergence of high temperature superconductivity as a research field (with U. Felt) (1997). Cambridge University Press
	Eigenzeit. Entstehung und Strukturierung eines Zeitgefühls, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1987
	More books and more than 300 articles in scientific journals

Invited Lectures and Conferences

See www.helga-nowotny.eu, Invited Lectures

Academic Institutions/ Membership in Scientific Board

See www.helga-nowotny.eu, Complete Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Honours

	Foreign Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2006
	John Desmond Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contribution to the Field, Society for the Study of Science, 2003
	Arthur-Burkhardt-Preis, 2002
	Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse, 2002
	Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Science at Uppsala, 2002
	President of the International Society for the Study of Time, 1992-1995
	Member of the Academia Europaea, London, 1989

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