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Ulrike Felt is full professor for Social Studies of Science at the University of Vienna. She holds a doctorate in theoretical high-energy physics (1983) and has moved then to the field of science and technology studies, where she has got her habilitation in 1997. During her career she has spent considerable periods in different kinds of research institutions, being research associate at CERN (higher-energy physics laboratory in Geneva; 1983-1988) and visiting professor at the Université du Québec a Montréal (1994), at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris (1996), at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (1997-1998) and at the ETH Zürich (2003). Ulrike Felt has wide experience in doing empirical social science research, in managing major research projects both on the national as well as on the European level and in evaluating research programmes and institutions in different European countries as well as in North America. Within the university she held over the last years several positions in the management. Her publication record embraces more than 60 articles (in four languages) and several books mainly in the areas of Public Understanding and Up-take of Science as well as science and technology policy (with special focus on university development). She has a broad experience in both teaching and managing teaching programmes.

Currently she serves as expert in the Advisory Group of the European Commission for the “Science and Society” priority of the 6th framework programme. Since 2002 she is editor of the international peer-reviewed journal „Science Technology and Human Values“ for a period of five years.

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