Dicussion
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Unteres Belvedere
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Dr. Philipp BLOM
Author, Lecturer & Broadcaster, Vienna
| Philipp Blom was born in 1970 in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in Germany. After university studies in Vienna and Oxford, he obtained a D.Phil in Modern History. He started writing at Oxford and published a novel as well as occasional journalism. After university, he worked in London as an editor, translator, writer and freelance journalist, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes in Great Britain, the US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and France. In 2001, Philipp Blom moved to Paris to concentrate on his books. In 2007 he settled in Vienna, where he continues to write historical nonfiction as well as fiction, and journalism. He presents a cultural discussion programme on Austrian national radio and has lectured on philosophy and cultural history in Europe, the US, and South America. |
Helga NOWOTNY
Member, Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development; Chair, ERA Council Forum Austria, Vienna
| 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 |
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