Ulrike Felt#
| Membership Number: | 5158 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://sts.univie.ac.at |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7506-4234 |
| Twitter: | @Ulrike_Felt |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
- 2015 - 2022 Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna
- 1999 - present Full Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna
- 2004 - 2014, 2018 - present Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna
- 2003 Invited Professor, Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- 1997 - 1999 Associate Professor, Department for Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna.
- 1997 - 1998 Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
- 1994 Invited Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- 1989 - 1997 Assistant Professor, University of Vienna
- 1983 - 1988 Researcher Associate at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Public engagement and participation in science and technology related issues
- Changes in research cultures
- Inter- and transdisciplinary research: culture and practice
- Role of social sciences in innovation
- Temporal aspects of scientific and technological developments
- Future imagainaries and anticipatory governance
- Responsibility, ethics and integrity in research
- Health, biomedicine and society
- Environment and sustainability
- Evidence-based policy advice
Honours and Awards
- Member of the SSH Panel of the ERC
- 2017 4S Infrastructure Award
- 2017-2020 President of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
- 2015 ARS DOCENDI (Austrian State Prize for Innovative Excellent Teaching)
- 2014 Ziman Award 2014 of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
- 2014 UNIVIE Teaching 2014 Award
- 2007 Honoured for the Services to the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) – Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s journal Science, Technology and Human Values
