Board of Trustees
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Prof. Dr. Martin W. Bauer Institute of Social Psychology, |
Martin W. Bauer is professor of Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science as well as being a research fellow at the Science Museum of London. Educated in Switzerland (psychology and economic history) and Great Britain (LSE, social psychology) his field of research includes Opposition in Social Processes, Presentation of and Attitudes towards Science and Technology, Genomic Research and Modern Biotechnology and Methods of Qualitative Social Research, in particular text analysis. |
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Prof. Dr. Beatrice Dernbach Journalism, |
Vice Chair of the Board |
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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt Science Studies, |
Ulrike Felt has been professor for science studies and head of the correspondent institute at the university of Vienna since 1999. After her PhD in theoretical physics (1983), Ms. Felt worked with CERN in Geneva for almost five years, analysing social, political und scientific aspects of the research institution within an interdisciplinary team. Thereby she switched to social sciences about the interaction between science, technology and society. Back to Vienna in 1988 she was invited to participate in the foundation of a new institute for Science Theory and Science Studies, headed by Helga Nowotny. Ms. Felt did her habilitiertationin 1997 and has since then gathered experience in leading several national and international research projects as well as in applying and developing a wide spectrum of qualitative methods. Furthermore Ulrike Felt was visiting professor at GERSULP/Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) as well as at the Centre Interuniversitaire pour la Recherche en Science et Technologie, Universite du Québec à Montréal, at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich. She is member of the board of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Ms. Felt pubshes the international journal Science, Technology & Human Values and recently co-founded the masters degree program "Science-Technology-Society" at the university of Vienna. Being also a political advisor in multiple functions she has been expert member of the Advisory Group of the European Commission for FP6 "Science and Society" as well as member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) from 2006 to 2007. Together with Brian Wynne in Brussels she led the Expert Group on Science and Governance from 2005-2007. |
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Prof. Dr. Annette Leßmöllmann Science Journalism, |
Annette Leßmöllmann is professor for Journalism, specializing in science journalism, and deputy member of the University Of Applied Sciences Senate in Darmstadt. Her focus in teaching and research is on science journalism and the internet, comprehensive writing and comprehensibility research in science journalism and editorial staff training in print and online media. Prior to this she taught at universities in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Magdeburg, at the Northern Institute of Technology/TU Hamburg-Harburg and the University of Darmstadt. She also worked as a freelance journalist for print and radio media, including Die Zeit, NDR Info und Technology Review, and as editor for the Publishing House Spektrum der Wissenschaft (Gehirn&Geist). She is a member of the Advisory Board for Wissenswerte (Bremer Forum for Science Journalism) und the Advisory Board for the Science Journalism Initiative. She is also a member of the Berufspraxiskommission der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft and the German Publishing Society (DGPuK) and the GermanJournalist Association (DJV). |
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Prof. Dr. Kathrin M. Möslein Business Informatics, |
Kathrin M. Möslein holds the professorship for the department of Information Systems I- Innovation & Value Creation as well as being Dean of Research in the field of applied economics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Additionally she is a research professor at the Commercial College Leipzig (HHL) and is member of the Management Committee of the Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC) at the HHL. Her research and professional fields are Strategic Innovation, Cooperation und Leadership and IT-support in businesses. Teaching events address questions concerning interactive value creation, innovation design, and the development and implementation of innovation strategies and leadership systems. From 2005 to 2007 Kathrin Möslein was professol for Strategic Management und Organisation at the Commercial College Leipzig. Prior to this she was Associate Director for the Development of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM) at the London Business School. Her academic roots lie in the University of technology in Munich: studies in IT, PHD in the faculty of science. Kathrin Möslein is a founder member of, and since 2007, Vice President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) and a founding member of the Special Interest Group "Innovation & Knowledge" of the Strategic Management Society. She is also a member of numerous advisory boards and professional organisations in the field of innovation and strategic management. For further information: |
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Prof. Dr. Joachim Warschat Director, |
Joachim Warschat is Institute director at the Fraunhofer Institute for Iindustrial Engineering and Organisation (IAO) in Stuttgart and heads the business area Technology and Innovation Management. He is scientific advisor to the European Science Senate, the Bergischen Institute for Product Development and Innovation Management and the Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI), the Fernfachhochschule Switzerland and member of the Management Committee of the Fraunhofer Academy. Prof. Warschat teaches technology management at the Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT) and project management, simultaneous engineering and computer aided design at the University of Stuttgart. He is the publisher and author of numerous books on innovation, technology monitoring and management, including „Innovation durch neue Technologien“, „Fokus Innovation: Kräfte bündeln – Prozesse beschleunigen“ (together with Hans-Jörg Bullinger). He has also written numerous articles on innovation management in networks, transfer of research results in die mittelständische industry and technology monitoring. |
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Prof. Dr. Ansgar Zerfass Communication Management, |
Chair of the Board |
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Prof. Dr. Hans-D. Zimmermann Competence Centre for eSociety, |
Hans-Dieter Zimmermann is Lecturer for Information Mangement at the Institute for Information and Process Management IPM of the FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied science, St. Gallen. His research areas and projects include eScience, eSociety eMarkets und eBusiness. Hans-Dieter Zimmermann qualified as Dr. oec. HSG at the University of St. Gallen and studied business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Diplom-Kaufmann) and the RWTH Aachen. He is associate-Editor of the international, scientific journal Electronic Markets – the International Journal on Networked Business. Since 2009 he has been the project leader of the 'FHS eSociety Leuchtturms' at IPM-FHS. Prior to this Prof. Zimmermann was head of Information Science at HTW Chur and representative for the department of Information Management and Interorganisation systems at the Institute for Information Management at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-University in Münster and science r Project leader at the Institute for Media and Communication Management, Universityt St. Gallen (MCM-HSG). During his research visit to the University of California E-conomy Project' he was in 1999 Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. On the topics e-Markets, e-Commerce 2.0, digital economy and information society he has written for international journals and books and is active on program comittees of international congresses and also works as a consultant. He is a member of professional bodies such as der Association for Information Systems (AIS), der Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was a founding member of the Executive Committees 'Electronic Commerce' der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). |
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MinDirig. Engelbert Beyer Head of Innovation Strategies, |
Engelbert Beyer studied economics at the Westfälischen-Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. After working in industry (Unilever) and as an economics advisor in political development cooperation he joined the then Ministry for Research and Technology in 1989. Since 1998 he has headed various departments concerned with key political innovation issues. In this capacity he was, amongst other things, instrumental in setting up and developing: reporting systems for technological capacity in Germany; various concepts for supporting small and medium sized companies and technology start-ups, and the BMBF Initiative "Unternehmen Region". His work in recent years has been heavily involved with the preparation and coordination of the government`s Hightech Strategy. |
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Prof. Dr. Günter Stock President, |
Since 2006 Günter Stock has been President of the Academy for Science, Berlin-Brandenburg (BBAW) of which he has been a member since 1995, and President of the Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften. Stock studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and was appointed professor of vegetative physiology in 1980. In 1983 he joined Schering AG and in 1989 became a member of the management board, responsible for research and development. In 1986 he was appointed as außerplanmäßigen Professor at the Freien Universität Berlin. Stock is member of the European Academy for Science and the Arts and of the Academia Europaea. He is Vice President of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,on the advisory board of the University Clinic, the University Board of the University of the Saarland, the advisory board of the Charité and the Board of Jerinii AG. He is also member of Wissenschaftlichen Ausschusses des österreichischen Wissenschaftsrats. |
