Antonio Calleja-Lopez
Graduate Student
University of Seville
E-mail: acalleja@asu.edu

Calleja-Lopez is a political science graduate student from the University of Seville visiting the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

Bruna de Marchi
Head of Mass Emergencies Programme
Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia
E-mail: bruna.de-marchi@fastweb.it

De Marchi is head of the Mass Emergencies Programme at the Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia. Her academic career has been spent in political science and sociology. Her research interests include application of qualitative and quantitative techniques in socio-linguistics, trans-frontier co-operation, mass emergencies and disasters, risk and the environment. Her primary specialization is risk communication.

De Marchi is a consultant for international and Italian public agencies, which include the European commission, the Italian Ministry of Interior, and the Department of Civil Protection. She has extensive experience in training civil servants and employees of private companies in the areas of civil protection, health, and the environment. She has been a close collaborator with the Institute for Systems Informatics and Safety, and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

Paul Ellwood
Graduate Student
University of Leeds
E-mail: p.ellwood@leeds.ac.uk

Paul Ellwood is a business graduate student at the University of Leeds. Ellwood also is a participant in the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) Project administered by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

The STIR Project is conducting a coordinated set of 20 laboratory engagement studies to assess and compare the varying pressures on – and capacities for – laboratories to integrate broader societal considerations into their work. Ten doctoral students are conducting two paired laboratory studies that extend more traditional ethnographies by engaging researchers in semi-structured interactions designed to enhance reflection upon research decisions in light of broader considerations.

Guillermo Foladori
Professor
University of Zacatecas
E-mail: gfoladori@gmail.com

Guillermo Foladori's work concentrates in the areas of environmental, health, and technology issues. Foladori’s current research focuses on the socio-economic implication of nanotechnologies for developing countries.

Foladori also is a member of the executive committee of the International Nanotechnology and Society Network, and of the Latin American Nanotechnology and Society Network.

Foladori has written ten books and dozens of journal articles. He was a research fellow at the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University, and a professor in Brazil, Uruguay, México, Honduras and Nicaragua. Currently, he is a professor at the University of Zacatecas in México, and member of the National System of Researchers (Conacyt).

Foladori received his Ph.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de México in Economics.

Maja Horst
Associate Professor
Copenhagen Business School
E-mail: mh.lpf@cbs.dk

Maja Horst is involved in the communication of controversial technologies and research results, including stem cell research. Horst participates in projects with interactive installations that invite audiences to become an active part of the research. She does this by building models in which they can indicate their attitudes.

Horst's contribution to public debate is of significant value to society. Through innovative communication forms, Horst is able to inform and enter into a dialogue with her audience. She has demonstrated that research can be communicated by means other than words, and that research communication in 2009 is a living, learning, and involving discipline.

Horst is an associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School. She received her masters degree in Communication and her Ph.D. in sociology of knowledge. Horst is the director of Doctoral School of Organization and Management Studies, and member of the Committee of Representatives at the Danish Board of Technology and DASTS (Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies).

Her areas of focus in research include science and technology studies, public understanding of science, research management, science and risk communication and sociology of innovation.

Noela Invernizzi
Assistant Professor
Federal University of Parana
E-mail: noela@ufpr.br

Invernizzi graduated from the Universidad de la República, Uruguay with a degree in anthropology. Her masters degree and Ph.D. in science and technology policy were received from the State University of Campinas. In 2003, Invernizzi accepted an internship at the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Columbia University.

Invernizzi is assistant professor in the Department of Education at the Federal University of Parana. She is the coordinator of the Latin American Nanotechnology and Society (ReLANS). Invernizzi is an anthropologist currently researching the social and economic implications of nanotechnologies for developing countries, focusing on inequality, poverty and development issues.

Mark Knell
Research Professor
Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology
E-mail: mark.knell@nifustep.no

Mark Knell attended the New School for Social Research in New York, and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the City University of New York studying econometrics and international economics. His undergraduate degree in business administration is from Wayne City University in Detroit.

Byoungyoon Kim
Graduate Student
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
E-mail: byoonkim@gmail.com

Byoungyoon Kim is a graduate student studying science and technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Kim also is a participant in the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) Project administered by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University.

The STIR Project is conducting a coordinated set of 20 laboratory engagement studies to assess and compare the varying pressures on – and capacities for – laboratories to integrate broader societal considerations into their work. Ten doctoral students are conducting two paired laboratory studies that extend more traditional ethnographies by engaging researchers in semi-structured interactions designed to enhance reflection upon research decisions in light of broader considerations.

Brice Laurent
Graduate Student
Ecole des Mines de Paris
E-mail: brice.laurent@ensmp.fr

Brice Laurent is a Ph.D. candidate at the Corps des Mines in Paris and is employed by the French state ministry of industry. Laurent previously studied the role of consulting companies in industrial research, and currently is focused on nanotechnology and public policy, with a special interest in public engagement.

Laurent was a fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Program on Science, Technology, and Society.

Brice holds a M.Sc. from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and a M.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, both with high honors.

Beate-Josefine Luber
Graduate Student
University of Bielefeld
E-mail: beate-josefine.luber@uni-bielefeld.de

Beate-Josefine Luber is a graduate student at the University of Bielefeld, and visited the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University in Fall 2008.

Krsto Pandza
Senior Lecturer, Manufacturing and Technology Strategy
Leeds University Business School
E-mail: kp@leeds.ac.uk

Krsto Pandza received his masters degree and Ph.D. in manufacturing engineering at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Pandza’s research interests focus on strategic management, technology and innovation management, manufacturing strategy, and R&D policy. His special interests include the role of managerial agency within dynamic and evolutionary organizational phenomena. Pandza’s current research explores development dynamics in nanotechnology innovation systems.

Pandza is the current program director for the masters program in manufacturing leadership. Previously, he was the manager for strategic planning of R&D and manufacturing operations at PRIMAT in Maribor, Slovenia, and a Research and Teaching Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Ramon Queralto Moreno
Professor
University of Seville
E-mail: queralto@us.es

Moreno is department head of philosophy at the University of Seville, Spain. Moreno is a member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Sciences. His research areas include philosophy at the University of Seville and Salamanca, and Political Science and Sociology at the University of Complutense, Madrid. Moreno also teaches courses in physics, linear algebra, and finite calculus at the University of Seville.

Arie Rip
Professor
University of Twente
E-mail: a.rip@utwente.nl

Arie Rip is a professor of philosophy of science and technology in the School of Management and Governance at the University of Twente. Rip’s is a major collaborator for the Centre for Studies of Science, Technology, and Society. He was a member of the EU High-Level Expert Group on Foresighting the New Technology Wave, and is an international collaborator on issues involving nanotechnology and society.

Rip received his degrees in chemistry and philosophy at the University of Leiden. His areas of research interest include physical chemistry, chemistry and society, and science, technology and society studies. Rip has co-authored more than 50 publications and 70 chapters in scholarly books.

Daan Schuurbiers
Graduate Student
Delft Technical University
E-mail: d.schuurbiers@verwijder-dit.tudelft.nl

Daan Shuurbiers received his degrees in chemistry and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, Shuurbiers holds a research position at the Working Group on Biotechnology and Society at Delft University of Technology, where he is working on the Ph.D. project, “Empowering Scientists in their Social Responsibility.” This project is funded by the Centre for Society and Genomics.

Shuurbiers also is a Project Manager for the European Union’s sponsored project, Nanobio-RAISE. This project aims to collaborate with experts in nanobiotechnology and the ethical and social ramifications associated with nanobiotechnology.

Schuurbiers teaches ethics at Delft University of Technology, and is a columnist for Delta (a weekly university magazine). He is the Chairman of the Working Group on Societal Aspects of the Netherlands Biotechnological Society, and Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Imagine Life Sciences.

Francois Thoreau
Graduate Student
University of Liege
E-mail: francois@thoreau.be

Francois Thoreau, a political science graduate student, was a visiting scholar at the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University during Spring 2009.

Thoreau’s research interests include emerging technologies, societal implications of biotechnologies, and nanotechnologies. He is a PhD student and research fellow at the University of Leige, studying science-society interactions in biotechnology and nanotechnology.

Rinie van Est
Professor
Rathenau Institute
E-mail: q.vanest@rathenau.nl

Rinie van Est is coordinator of the technology assessment department at the Rathenau Institute, the Netherlands’ parliamentary technology assessment office. His expertise includes public engagement and participatory methods. He has done extensive work for the Rathenau Institute in emerging technologies.

Rutger van Merkerk
University of Twente
E-mail: R.vanMerkerk@umcutrecht.nl

Rutger van Merkerk received his masters degree in applied physics with a specialization in materials science from the University of Groningen. Van Merkerk also holds a business administration masters degree from the same institution.

Van Merkerk worked as a Ph.D. candidate at the Copernicus Insitute for Sustainability and Innovation, Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

He has worked as a consultant in health care innovation at Medimate BV, a university spin-off of the University of Twente, and now woks at the University Medical Center Utrecht as a project leader in the Medical Technological Innovation Centre.

Michiel Van Oudheusden
Graduate Student
Antwerp University
E-mail: michiel.vanoudheusden@ua.ac.be

Michiel Van Oudheusden obtained degrees in communications sciences, political philosophy, and international relations, and worked as a press officer in the Belgian Senate.

Van Oudheusden currently is engaged in interdisciplinary investigation into societal issues with respect to emerging nanotechnologies. He holds a research position with the University of Antwerp. His studies are in collaboration with “Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow’s Society,” a four year Technology Assessment research project which brings together natural scientists, social scientists.

Van Oudheusden’s specific research interests include scientific and technological discourse, self-reflexivity in technology assessment, and evaluation of technology assessments.

James Wilsdon
Director or Science Policy
The Royal Society
E-mail: james.wilsdon@royalsociety.org

James Wilsdon received his undergraduate and masters degrees in philosophy and theology from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. in technology policy from Middlesex University. Wilsdon is the director of the Science Policy Centre at the Royal Society.

Wilsdon was head of strategy at the think tank, Demos, then head of science and innovation at the same organization. He also was Director of the Atlas of Ideas' Project. Wilsdon has researched and published extensively on the subjects of science and innovation policy, sustainable development, emerging technologies, and the globalization of research and higher education.

Wilsdon was senior policy adviser at the sustainability charity, Forum for the Future. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and a Trustee of People and Planet.

Gregor Wolbring
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
E-mail: gregor.wolbring@asu.edu

Gregor Wolbring is a research scientist at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine. Wolbring also holds several adjunct appointments in education, ethics, and law. Wolbring is an international leader in research and advocacy around bioethics and disability.

Wolbring holds a PhD in biochemistry, and has worked in biochemistry for more than fifteen years. For more than twenty years, he has focused on ethics and governance of science and technology issues and on issues of importance to disabled people.

Wolbring is a affiliated scholar at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University, and is a part-time professor of law at the University of Ottawa in Canada and an adjunct faculty in critical disability studies at York University in Canada.

Qin Zhu
Graduate Student
Dalian University of Technology
E-mail: qzhu@mines.edu

Qin Zhu, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Dalian University of Technology, is a visiting scholar in the Colorado School of Mines’ Liberal Arts and International Studies (LAIS) Division. Zhu is working with students, faculty, and post-doctoral associates as part of an NSF-funded research project on Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR).

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), STIR aims to create new kinds of interaction between humanities scholars and scientists (including applied scientists and engineers) in which the “two cultures” learn from each other. Qin Zhu is being mentored by Professor Carl Mitcham in LAIS. Professor Erik Fisher at Arizona State University, is the STIR project director.