Research interests:
- Social responsibility of scientists in public interaction and public opinion forming
- Novel forms of public communication
- Ethical aspects of industrial biotechnology
- Development of transdisciplinary action research methodology
Biography:
2009 – present
- Full professor Science Communication and Group leader Biotechnology and Society, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
2002 – present
- Managing director and Programme leader Society Programme, Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
2007 – 2009
- Assistant professor Biotechnology and Society, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology
2007 (September-January)
- Sabbatical at Cambridge University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and St Edmund College, United Kingdom
2003 – 2006
- PhD at VU University of Amsterdam, Prof.dr. J.T. de Cock Buning, ‘A Short History of Talking Biotech: fifteen years of iterative action research in institutionalizing scientists’ engagement in public communication’
1999 – 2007
- Executive Secretary, Department of Biotechnology and Graduate Research School Biotechnological Sciences Delft Leiden, Director Biotechnology Project Bureau
1997 – 1999
- Manager Graduate Research School Biotechnological Sciences Delft Leiden
1991 – 1997
- Project officer fund acquisition, international projects and education, Department of Biotechnology, and Foundation Biotechnology Studies Delft Leiden
1984 – 1991
- Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Sub Faculty of Biology, respectively Curriculum development officer, Study advisor and Director of European education project
1984
- MSc Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Prof. J. Hoeijmakers, ‘Genetic complimentation in Xeroderma pigmentosa’ and Prof. A.J. Waarlo, ‘National education of prenatal diagnostics’