Helga NOWOTNY Member, Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development; Chair, ERA Council Forum Austria, Vienna
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1959 | Doctorate in Jurisprudence, University of Vienna |
1969 | Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York |
1996-2002 | Professor of Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich |
Teaching and Research Positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna; King's College, Cambridge; University of Bielefeld; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales, Paris; Science Center for Social Sciences, Berlin; Collegium Budapest | |
1998-2004 | Director, "Collegium Helveticum", ETH Zurich |
2001-2006 | Chair, EURAB - European Research Advisory Board of the European Commission |
2002-2004 | Director, Branco Weiss Fellowship Programme "Society in Science" |
2005-2011 | Chair, Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Vienna |
2007-2010 | Vice-President ERC - European Research Council |
2010-2013 | President, ERC - European Research Council |
Professor em., Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich |
Mitgliedschaften
Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences | |
Member of the Academia Europaea | |
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts | |
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei | |
Accademia delle Scienze di Torino | |
Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech) | |
TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (Technische Universität München) |
Publikationen
More than thirty books and up to two hundred articles in scientific journals. Her latest books are: | |
An Orderly Mess, 2017 | |
Eigenzeit.Revisited in: Bernd Scherer (Hg). Die Zeit der Algorithmen, 2016 | |
The Cunning of Uncertainty, 2015 | |
Die Gläsernen Gene. Gesellschaftliche Optionen im molekularen Zeitalter, with Giuseppe Testa (English translation by MIT Press in 2011) | |
Re-Thinking Science. Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty, 2001 (first author) | |
The Public Nature of Science under Assault: Politics, Markets, Science and the Law, 2005 (first author) |
Auszeichnungen
Arthur Burckhardt-Preis, 2002 | |
John Desmond Bernal Prize for life-long achievement in social studies of science, 2003 | |
Ph.D. Honoris Causa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 2013 | |
honorary degree at Oxford University Encaenia 2018 | |
Leibniz-Medaille of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2018 | |
and many more |