Background and activities
I am a researcher and principal investigator in the research project "Performing ELSA. Governance of and governmentality in nanotechnology and biotechnology research." Since 2016, I am also group leader for "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)" at the newly founded, national center for Digital Life Norway. I work at the Centre for Technology and Society at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. My research draws on Critical Policy Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
A theme in my research is my critical-constructive perspective on “responsible innovation.” In my thesis, I studied the political dimensions of nanotechnology in a comparative case study. In my post doc project, I was part of an integrated project called “Socially Robust Solar Cells” together with materials scientists who developed new materials for solar cells. In this project, I studied both research practices in the laboratory, interdisciplinary cooperation, and questions of sustainable energy and society. Currently, I am analysing which capabilities scientists and innovators have to enact responsibility demands and under which conditions of possibility science governance can transform.
I conducted my undergraduate and graduate studies at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Vienna. As a PhD student, I was granted a scholarship by the Vienna School of Governance where I completed my PhD in 2011 with the dissertation “Regulating the Unknown: Governing Nanotechnologies by a Logic of Pre-emption.” I was also an affiliated member at the Life Science Governance Research Platform. Afterwards, I held a post-doctoral position at the Centre for Technology and Society where I have stayed since.
Comissions of trust
Chairman for "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)" group within NTNU's biotechnology research
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 (3).
- (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.