Background and activities
I am a senior researcher at the Centre for Technology and Society in the Department for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU). My background is in Political Sciences, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Since I started in academia with a PhD project eleven years ago, my research has explored the governance of science and technology, with a focus on nano- and biotechnology research, sustainable energy and society, and interdisciplinarity. I am particularly interested in the production of knowledge and in democratic decision-making. My research is based on qualitative methods. My approach draws on interpretive (policy) analysis, concepts from STS (such as co-production of science and society, and actor-network theory), and political discourse theory.
After completing my PhD at the University of Vienna, I started in 2011 as a postdoc in the project “Socially Robust Solar Cells (SoRoSol)” at NTNU. In spring 2018, I finalized the research project "Performing ELSA. Governance of and governmentality in nanotechnology and biotechnology research". I am now working with my research project “Res Publica. Responsibility, practice, and the public good across Digital Life”. This project is a concomitant research project to the newly founded, national Centre for Digital Life Norway. Since 2016, I have been a group leader for "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)" at this center.
Comissions of trust
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Experiments in interdisciplinarity: Responsible research and innovation and the public good. PLoS biology. vol. 16:e2003921 (3).
- (2018) Ethics as ritual: smoothing over moments of dislocation in biomedicine. Sociology of Health and Illness.
- (2016) Making policy move. Towards a politics of translation and assemblage, by John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs. Critical Policy Studies. vol. 10 (2).
- (2015) The sun also rises in Norway: Solar scientists as transition actors. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. vol. 16.
- (2013) ‘Don’t make nanotechnology sexy, ensure its benefits, and be neutral’: Studying the logics of new intermediary institutions in ambiguous governance contexts. Science and Public Policy. vol. 40 (4).
- (2011) Trust as Glue in Nanotechnology Governance Networks. NanoEthics. vol. 5 (1).
Part of book/report
- (2015) Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty, and socio-materiality. Handbook of Critical Policy Studies.
- (2015) Preparing for new solar cells through integrated research: challenges in translating social robustness into the selection of materials. Practices of Innovation and Responsibility: insights from methods, governance and action.
- (2010) Uncertainty, Governance. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society.
Report/dissertation
- (2011) Regulating the Unknown: Governing Nanotechnologies by a Logic of Pre-emption. 2011.