Ulrike Felt, Kay Felder & Michael Penkler

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and currently Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on issues of governance, democracy and public participation in technoscience, changing research cultures, as well as the role of time in science and society issues. Her work has covered the life sciences, biomedicine, nanotechnologies and sustainability research. She has been invited professor at numerous universities and has been involved in policy advice to the European Commission as well as to national bodies. From 2002 to 2007 she was editor-in-chief of Science, Technology, & Human Values.|Kay Felder is a PhD candidate at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Her current research focuses on public of science and medicine and on how human diversity becomes a ma er of concern in health contexts. kay.felder@univie.ac.at|Michael Penkler is a PhD candidate at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. His work centers on a variety of STS issues in biomedicine and health care. His current research focuses on questions of subjectivity and embodiment in health issues and on how human diversity becomes a ma er of concern in biomedicine.
michael.penkler@univie.ac.at