I am Associate Professor of Anticipation and Assessment of Emerging Technologies. As one of my core research interests, I study the role of anticipation in innovation, reaching from an analytical interest in the role of expectations and socio-technical futures in research, innovation and its governance, to intervention approaches, such as foresight and socio-technical scenarios. The latter are a typical element of Constructive Technology Assessment, an approach that combines socio-technical analysis, stakeholder involvement and the use of socio-technical scenarios, as a means to feed knowledge on the socio-technical context and stakeholder assessments into the development and societal embedding of innovations. Further fields of research are socio-technical change, socio-technical transitions, innovation ecosystems, and the role of use and users in innovation. I have developed tools for facilitating responsible research and innovation (RRI) in technology research and development and studied conditions for RRI in different modes of innovation.
I serve as chair of the faculty research theme Emerging Technologies and Societal Transformations. I am associate editor of the journals 'Futures' and 'Engineering Studies', and a member of the teaching committee of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
I received a M.A. degree in sociology, physics and mathematics from the University of Freiburg i.Br., and my PhD from the University of Darmstadt. Before joining the UT in 2009, I worked at EAWAG, a research institute of the ETH domain, Zurich (CH).
Expertise
Computer Science
- Innovations
- Roles
- User
- Emerging Technology
- Application
- Process Innovation
- Embedding
- Contexts
Organisations
Research interests
- anticipation in innovation processes
- sociology of expectations
- dynamics of collective expectations, hype cycles
- anticipatory practices and modes of future-orientation
- discursive analysis of promises and concerns
- constructive technology assessment
- foresight
- responsible research and innovation
- sociology of expectations
- Socio-technical transitions
- sectoral dynamics in innovation
- innovation ecosystems
- technology use
- use practices
- demand articulation
- scenarios of use
- nanotechnologies, energy technologies, eHealth
Publications
2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
Research profiles
I teach in a number of social and technical programmes on master and bachelor level, in particular on topics related to my research, such as the role of futures and anticipation in innovation, societal embedding and technology assessment. I coordinate the minor ‘Governance of Innovation and Socio-Technical Change’ and I am member of the teaching committees of the master programme Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society and the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2024/2025
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201800149 - Anticipation & eval. of emerging technol
- 202000111 - Proj. Analysis Energy Syst. &Ac.Skills 2
- 202000155 - Societal Embedding Assignment
- 202000163 - Industry 4.0 with Human Touch
- 202001421 - Gov. of Inn. and Socio-Technical Change
- 202001556 - Societal Emb. MSc assignment NT & CSE
- 202100093 - Technologies and Discourse
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201300089 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 201800149 - Anticipation & eval. of emerging technol
- 201900178 - Master Thesis PSTS-BA
- 202000150 - Academic Research & Skills
- 202000154 - Research Assignment
- 202000155 - Societal Embedding Assignment
- 202000163 - Industry 4.0 with Human Touch
- 202000423 - Professional and Academic Development M7
- 202001421 - Gov. of Inn. and Socio-Technical Change
- 202001556 - Societal Emb. MSc assignment NT & CSE
- 202100093 - Technologies and Discourse
Current projects
Socio-technical pathways and material choices for a responsible electrification of the production of chemicals and fuels
funded by NWO-MVI, 2022-2025
Releasing the power of users
Articulating user interests to accelerate new innovative pathways in digital health and welfare sector
2020-2024, funded by the Norwegian Research Council
Synergia
NWO Crossover project, 2021-2027
DIRECT - Diffuse Irradiance Redirector for Efficient ConcenTration
funded by NWO, 2022-2027, the project works on solar power plants for which buildings, nature, and agriculture surrounding the solar panels play an important role in the solar energy collection. The project aims to develop a new type of nanophotonic material and to design surfaces which collect direct and diffuse sunlight and send invisible infrared light towards solar panels. The multidisciplinary team investigates technical and business possibilities, as well as environmental and societal impacts.
SepsPIC
Highly multiplexed photonics integrated circuit (PIC) sensors for the rapid diagnostics of sepsis
funded by NWO, 2024-2028
Finished projects
Theatrical Technology Assessment
Experiencing stakeholder perspectives and societal implications of quantum and nanotechnologies
funded by NWO - NWA QuantumNanoRoute
TopFit Citizenlab
Digitalize or Die – Dynamic Drivers of Responsible Innovation in Health and Welfare Services
funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the Province of Overijssel
Safe and Societally Robust Innovative Materials and Products
funded by NWO – NWA Startimpuls ‘Spearheads of the Quantum/Nanorevolution’
Joined project with Saxion and RIVM
Industrial Innovation in Transition (IIT) (EU-H2020)
Research and Innovation Futures
funded by EU FP7
NanoNextNL
Anticipating on technological developments and their embedding in society
Nanotechnology for Safety and Justice
funded by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice
Towards a common research agenda on the socio-technical aspects of net-zero, sustainable data centers
VU-UT collaborative project, 2022-2023
Address
University of Twente
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7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Ravelijn 5101
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
Organisations
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