Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny ( born August 9, 1937 in Vienna) is an Austrian sociologist and science researcher. She was from 1996 until her retirement in 2002 Professor of Science Studies at ETH Zurich and is Vice- President of the European Research Council. From 2010 to 2013 she was the President and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of ERC.
Life
From 1998, she headed the Collegium Helveticum ETH Zurich. Until their return to their native Vienna in 2004, she was founding director of post-graduate fellowship program " Society in science: the Branco Weiss Fellowship " at the ETH Zurich. She earned a doctorate in law at the University of Vienna ( Dr. iur. ) And a Ph.D. in sociology at Columbia University, New York. Her teaching and research activities led by the Institute for Advanced Studies ( IHS) in Vienna at King's College in Cambridge, UK, at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. From 1992-1999 she was a Permanent Fellow at Collegium Budapest / Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to her appointment at the ETH Zurich was Helga Nowotny professor and head of the established on the initiative of the philosopher of science Erhard Oeser Institute for Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of Vienna.
Helga Nowotny is a member of the Academia Europaea and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Among other honors Helga Nowotny was awarded the John Desmond Bernal - Award for her life's work in science research, 2008, the City of Vienna Prize for Humanities.
Research and Publications
Helga Nowotny's research interests have led from the macro sociology and its methods of science research ( Social Studies of Science and Technology or Science and Technology Studies STS). The focus of their work in the 70s and 80s issues such as scientific controversies and technological risks, social time, dealing with uncertainty, self-organization in science and gender relations in the sciences were. She has published to monographs and published several books. Book your own time (1987 ) was translated into several languages and from 1992-95 was Helga Nowotny President of the International Society for the Study of Time. In the 1990s, she focused on new topics in the scientific research. She examined together with Ulrike Felt scientific breakthroughs and their impact on research funding. Increasingly advanced the changing relationships between science and society at the center. Together with Michael Gibbons and Peter Scott is the author of, Re - Thinking Science ' (2001) (Engl.: think new to science: Science and Society in an Age of Uncertainty, 2004), based on the influential book, The New Production of Knowledge ' (1994 ) was followed. Her recent publications include the publication of, Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation ' (2006) and her monograph, insatiable curiosity. Innovation in a fragile future ' (German 2005, Italian 2006, engl. 2008 by MIT Press ). She is also co-author of, The Public Nature of Science Under Assault ' ( 2005). Overall, she has published more than 250 articles in scientific journals. Together with the molecular biologist Giuseppe Testa 2009 she published the work The glass genes. The invention of the individual in the molecular era in which the influence of the life sciences is examined on society.
Research Policy / Research Consulting
In addition to her activities in teaching and research, both at several European universities and research institutions, was and Helga Nowotny is heavily involved in research policy. From 1985-1992 she was Chair of the Standing Committee for Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation. She was and is chairman and member of scientific advisory boards of research institutions and advisory bodies in Europe. She is also Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the University of Vienna. From 2001 to early 2006, she was Chair of EURAB, the European Research Advisory Board of the European Commission, a function that they gave when she was appointed Vice - President of the ERC. This was established to promote frontier research at EU level and a single criterion must comply - scientific excellence in European competition.