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Name
Professor Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D.
born in Vienna, Austria, Austrian citizenship
Current Position
Professor em. Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
President of the European Research Council
Address
WWTF, Vienna Science and Technology Fund, Währingerstrasse
3/14
AT-1090 Vienna, Austria
e-mail: helga.nowotny@wwtf.at
personal homepage: www.helga-nowotny.eu
Education
Habilitation, Grund- und Integrativwissenschaftliche Fakultät,
University of Vienna, 1982
Habilitation, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, FRG,
1980
Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York, 1969 (with Paul
Lazarsfeld) Doctor juris, University of Vienna, 1959
Matura with honours, 1955, Vienna
West de Pere, Wisconsin, High School Diploma, Fellowship of the
American Field Service, 1954
Previous Professional Appointments
Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science,
ETH Zurich, (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 1996-2002
Director, "Collegium Helveticum", ETH Zurich, 1998-2002,
Founding Director of the post-doctorate Fellowship Programme "Society
in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship", 2002-2004
Professor of Social Studies of Science, Institute for
Theory and Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna, 1987-1996
Associate Professor, University of Vienna, 1982-1987
Executive and Founding Director of the European Centre,
1974-1987
Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, UK, 1972-1973
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Sociology,
Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1969-1972
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Criminology,
University of Vienna, 1960-1964
Guest Professorships and Fellowships
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1981-1982 and
2003-2004
Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced
Study, 1992-1996
Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1994
Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (EHESS), Paris, 1992, 1990
Maitre d'Etudes, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris,
1987
Resident, Rockefeller Foundation, Conference and Study
Centre, Bellagio, 1988
Guest Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum for Social Sciences,
Berlin, 1985, 1989
Guest Professor, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of
Sociology, 1978-1979
Guest Professor, Sommerakademie, Verbund für Wissenschafts-geschichte,
Berlin, 1993
Guest Professor, Dutch Summer School "Science andTechnology
Studies", Twente, 1990
Awards and Honours
Foreign Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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
President of the International Society for the Study of Time, 1992-1995
Member of the Academia Europaea, London, 1989
Recent Books and selected Publications
Die Gläsernen Gene, Die Erfindung des Individuums im molekularen
Zeitalter, (with Giuseppe Test), Frankfurt a.M.: Edition Unseld,
Suhrkamp 2009
Insatiable Curiosity, Innovation in a Fragile Future, MIT Press,
Cambridge, Mass., 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. L'innovazione 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)
Re-Thinking Science. Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty.
Oxford: Polity, 2001 (with P. Scott, M. Gibbons)
Es ist so, es könnte auch anders sein. Über das veränderte Verhältnis
von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1999
After the Breakthrough; the Emergence of High-temperature Superconductivity
as a Research Field, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
(with U. Felt)
The Sociology of the Sciences, Cheltenham: Elgar, 1996 (with K.
Taschwer)
Wissenschaftsforschung: Eine Einführung, Frankfurt a.M.: Campus,
1995 (with U. Felt, K. Taschwer)
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)
Self-Organization: Portrait of Scientific Revolution, Dordrecht
and Boston: Kluwer Academics Publishers, 1990 (with G. Küppers,
W. Krohn)
Eigenzeit. Entstehung und Strukturierung eines Zeitgefühls, Frankfurt
a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1987
Über den Umgang mit Unsicherheit. Die Entdeckung der Gestaltbarkeitvon
Gesellschaft. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1987 (with A.Evers)
Wie männlich ist die Wissenschaft? Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 1982
(with K. Hausen)
More books and more than 300 articles in scientific journals.
Other Professional Activities
current
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Vienna 2005 -
Chair, Programme Committee, ESOF 2010, Torino
Member, Royal Society Study, The Fruits of Curiosity: science,
innovation and future sources of wealth, 2009-
Chair, International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology, 2009-
Member, jury du Prix Claude Lévi-Strauss, 2009-
Member,Advisory Board, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala,
2007-
Member, Holberg Prize Academic Committee, 2008-
Member, Scientific Board, Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen,Vienna,
1991 -
President, Scientific Committee, Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, 2006-
Member, Science Board, Institute Para Limes, Netherlands, 2006-
Member, Counseil d`Administration, Fondation Institut d´Etudes
Avancées Nord-Sud à Nantes, Nantes, 2006 -
Member, Advisory Committee, Vienna Strategy for Research, Technology
and Innovation, Vienna, 2006-
Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Bruno Kreisky Forum, 2005
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Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science, AAAS
Member, Advisory Board, Science and Public Policy
Past Professional Activities
Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the post-doctorate Fellowship
Programme "Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship, 2002
-2008
Chair, EURAB, the European Research Advisory Board, EuropeanCommission
2001-2006
Chairperson, Scientific Advisory Board Collegium Budapest/Institute
for Advanced Studies, 2001-2006
Member, Kuratorium, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1996-2007
Member, "Berliner Wissenschaftkommission", 2005-2007
Member, Scientific Board, Einsteinforum, Potsdam
Member, Advisory Board of ESOF 2008, 2006 and ESOF 2004
Member, Advisory Board "Science et Cité", Bern, Switzerland, 1998-2002
Vice-Chair, Stiftungsrat, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2003-2005
Member, Advisory Board "Junge Akademie" an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher
Leopoldina, 2002-2005
Member, Kuratorium of Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte,
2002-2005
Chair, Planning and Advisory Board, Central European UniversityBudapest
2002-2004
Member, working group "Nationale Akademie" des deutschen Wissenschaftsrates,
2002-2004
Member, Jury of the Max-Schmidheiny-Stiftung, 2001-2004
Member, Scientific Advisory Council for the Humanities and Social
Science at the International University Bremen", 2001-2005
Member, International Advisory Board of the Linköpings Universitet,
Sweden, 2001-2004
Member, Comité d'orientation Observatoire Ecole PolytechniqueFédéral
Lausanne, "Science, Politique et Societé", 1999-2002
Member, Scientific Board "Europäische Wissenschaftstage Steyr",1999
Member, Board Institut Wiener Kreis, Verein zur Förderung Wissenschaftlicher
Weltauffassung, 1998 - 2006
Chairperson, External Advisory Group of Key Action "Improving the
socio-economic knowledge base", 5th Framework Programme of EU, 1998-2001
Senior Scientific Advisor, "Agora: Arbeit - Wissen - Bindung",
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1998-2000
Member, Advisory Committee, "Summer Academy on Technology Studies",
Graz, 1998
Member, Board IFZ, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und
Fortbildung, "International Summer Academy on Interdisdiplinary
Technology Studies", 1998
Member, Advisory Editor Board, International Encyclopaedia of theSocial
and Behavioural Sciences, 1998
Member, Advisory Board, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 1998
Member, Scientific Board, Wittgenstein Research Project / ResearchCentre
Discourse, Politics, Identity, Vienna, 1997-2002
Vice-Chairperson, European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA),
European Commission, 1997-1998
Member, Scientific Board, Collegium Helveticum, ETH, Zurich, 1997-1998
Member, Task Force on 5th Framework Programme - Training andMobility
of Research, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, 1995-1998
Member, "Evaluation des Departements Umweltnaturwissenschaften
der ETH Zurich", 1995
Member, Executive Committee, Premio Europeo Amalfi per la Sociologia
e le Scienze Sociali
Member, Scientific Board and member of the evaluation team, Amsterdam
School for Social Science Research, 1994
Member, International Advisory Board, Quality Assessment Group,Uppsala
University, 1994
Head of Working Group for the implementation of UOG '93, University
ofVienna, 1994
Member, Advisory Panel, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University
of Sussex, Brighton, 1994
Member, Scientific Board, Institute Wiener Kreis", Vienna
Vice-President, IFK - Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften,
Wien, 1992-1995
Member, Panel on Economics and Social Sciences, Human Capital and
Mobility Programme, 1992-1994
Member, Steering Committee on Global Environmental Change, IIASA,
Laxenburg, Austria, 1992-1994
Member, Organizing Committee, Second European FeministResearch
Conference, Graz, 1992-1994
Member, International Advisory Board, Department of Business Studies
Uppsala University, 1992
Member, Scientific Board, Max-Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung,
Max Planck Gesellschaft, 1991-2000
Member, Scientific Board, Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, 1991-1997
Member, Executive Council, Academia Europaea, London 1991-1994
Member, Scientific Board, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut des
Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1990-1993
Member, Jury "Qualitatives Wirtschaftswachstum": Schweisfurth Stiftung,
1990-1991
General Rapporteur, Bergen Conference "Sustainable Development,
Science and Policy", 1990
Member, European Committee on 'Social Science in Western Europe',
1988-1990
Chairperson, Bernal Prize Committee, Society for the Social Studyof
Science, 1988-1989
Member, Board (Kuratorium), Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst,
Vienna, 1986 - 2006
Member, International Advisory Group, Commission for the Study
of Power and Democracy in Sweden, Stockholm, 1986-1990
Chairperson, Standing Committee for the Social Sciences European,
Science Foundation, Strasbourg, 1985-1992
Member, Beirat für Technologiebewertung, Bundesministerium für
Wissenschaft und Forschung, Wien, 1985-1987
Member, Network Committee, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg,
1985-1992
Member, Steering Committee "Environment, Science, Society", European
Science Foundation, Strasbourg, 1985-1992
Member, Kuratorium, Institut für Höhere Studien/Institut for AdvancedStudies,
Vienna, 1984-1998
Member, International Advisory Committee, Department of Dynamics
of Science, Amsterdam, 1983 - 1995
Member, Scientific Board, Internationales Institut für Umwelt und
Gesellschaft, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1983-1987
Member, Kuratorium, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft und Technikforschung,
Bielefeld, 1983
Selected Membership in professional associations
Association for the Social Study of Time
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Wissenschaftsforschung
European Association of Science, Society, Technology (EASST)
Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, ISA
International Council for Science Policy Studies
International Society for the Study of Time
International Sociological Association
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Society for Social Studies of Sciences (4S)
Past and Present Member of the Advisory Board or Co-Editor
of the following Journals
Bibliothek sozialwissenschaftlicher Emigranten aus Österreich
Bulletin of Science
Contemporary Austrian Studies
East Central Europe/ L'Europe du Centre-Est (ECE/ECE)
European Journal of Social Theory
Eurosocial
Fundamenta Scientiae
Innovation - The European Journal of Social Sciences
Innovation in Social Science Research
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences
International Society for the Study of Time
Jahrbuch "Technik und Gesellschaft"
Jcom, Journal of Science Communication
Journal für Sozialforschung
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time
L'Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft
Natures Sciences Sociétes
Oxygen, La scienza per tutti
Reihe Soziologie, Kohlhammer Verlag
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Science, AAAS
Science and Public Policy
Science, Technology & Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Sociology of the Sciences Monographs
SWS-Rundschau
Temporalistes
The European Journal for the Study of Social Sciences Research-Innovation
Theory and Society
Time and Society
Yearbook in the Sociology of the Sciences
Zeitschrift für Soziologie
Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsforschung
Zeittheorie und Zeitdiagnose (Newsletter)
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