Helga Nowotny, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster ist emeritierte Professorin für Sozialwissenschaften an der ETH Zürich und Gründungsmitglied sowie ehemalige Präsidentin des European Research Council, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster (2010-2013) und derzeit Vorsitzende des ERA Council Forum Austria, öffnet eine externe URL in einem neuen Fenster.

 

Wann? Mittwoch, 4.3.2015 um 18:00 Uhr
Wo? Kuppelsaal, Karlsplatz 13, 4. Stock, 1040 Wien

 

Kurzbiografie:

Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich, and a founding member of the European Research Council. In 2007 she was elected ERC Vice President and from March 2010 until December 2013 President of the ERC. Recently, she has been appointed Chair of the ERA Council Forum Austria.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, NY. and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Vienna. She has held teaching and research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna; King’s College, Cambridge; University of Bielefeld; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Ecole des Hautes Etudes an Sciences Sociales, Paris; Science Center for Social Sciences, Berlin; Collegium Budapest; Budapest. Before joining ETH Zurich, Professor Nowotny was Professor for Social Studies of Science at the University of Vienna. Among other, Helga Nowotny is Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and continues to serve on many international advisory boards throughout Europe. She received doctorates honoris causa from several European universities and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Helga Nowotny has published widely in social studies of science and technology and on social time. 


Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse
Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften
Ph.D. Honoris Causa, Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Lancaster
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Twente
Dorothea-Schölzer-Medaille, University of Göttingen
Distinguished Affiliated Professor, Technische Universität München
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Foreign Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei
Foreign Member, Royal Society of Science at Uppsala
Member, Academia Europaea
John Desmond Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contribution to the Field, Society for the Study of Science (for life time achievements)


Helga Nowotny has published more than 300 articles in scientific journals.

Her latest book publications include Naked Genes, Reinventing the human in the molecular age, (with Giuseppe Testa), MIT Press, 2011, Insatiable Curiosity, Innovation in a Fragile Future, MIT Press, 2008, and Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation (ed.), New York and London, 2006.