Prof. Helga Nowotny PhD

• 1954
  West de Pere, Wisconsin, High School Diploma, Fellowship of the American Field Service
  
  

• 1955
  Matura with honours, 1955, Vienna
  
  

• 1959
  Doctor juris, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1960 – 1964
  Assistant Professor Institute for Criminology, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1969
  Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York
  
  

• 1969 – 1972
  Associate Professor and head, Department of sociology, Institute for Advanced Studies
  
  

• 1972 – 1973
  Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge, UK
  
  

• 1974 – 1987
  Executive and Founding Director of the European Centre
  
  

• 1978 – 1979
  Guest Professor, University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology
  
  

• 1980
  Habilitation, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, FRG
  
  

• 1981 – 1982
  Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  
  

• 1982
  Habilitation, Grund- und Integrativwissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1982 – 1987
  Associate Professor, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1985 and 1989
  Guest Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum for Social Sciences, Berlin
  
  

• 1987
  Maitre d'Etudes, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
  
  

• 1987 – 1996
  Professor of Social Studies of Science, Institute of Theory and social studies of Science, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1988
  Resident, Rockefeller Foundation, Conference and Study Centre, Bellagio
  
  

• 1990
  Guest Professor, Dutch Summer School "Science and Technology Studies", Twente
  
  

• 1990 and 1992
  Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
  
  

• 1992 – 1996
  Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study
  
  

• 1993
  Guest Professor, Sommerakademie, Verbund für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
  
  

• 1994
  Guest Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
  
  

• 1996 – 2000
  Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
  
  

• 1998 – 2002
  Director of the "Collegium Helveticum", ETH Zurich
  
  

• 2002 – 2004
  Founding Director of the post-doctorate Fellowship Programme "Society in Science: The Branco Weiss Fellowship"
  
  

• 2003 – 2004
  Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  
  

• Naked Genes, Reinventing the human in the molecular age, (with Giuseppe Testa), MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 2011

• 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, 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)

  German: Wissenschaft neu denken: Wissen und Öffentlichkeit in einem Zeitalter der Ungewissheit. Velbrück, 2004

  French: Repenser la science. Savoir et société à l’ère de l’incertitude. Paris : Belin

• 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)

Other professional activities (current):

• Member, Steering Committee, ESOF2012, Dublin

• Member, Program Advisory Committee, IIASA 40th Anniversary Conference, 2012

• Member, University Council Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, since 2011

• Observer, Senat Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, since 2011

• Member, Board of Trustees, Falling Walls, Berlin, since 2011

• Chair, Search Committee for Director IEA Paris, since 2010

• Member, Scientific Committee, BioVision, Lyon, since 2010

• Member, Egenis Advisory Board, Exeter, since 2010

• Member, jury du Prix Claude Lévi-Strauss, since 2009

• Member, Holberg Prize Academic Committee, since 2008

• Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, since 2007

• President, Scientific Committee, Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, since 2006

• Member, Counseil d`Administration, Fondation Institut d´Etudes Avancées Nord-Sud à Nantes, Nantes, since 2006

• Member, Scientific Board, Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen, Vienna, since 1991

• Member, Board of Reviewing Editors, Science, AAAS

• Member, Advisory Board, Science and Public Policy

Selected membership in professional associations:

• International Society for the Study of Time

• 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 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; 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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