About Me
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).
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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
- use practices
- nanotechnologies, energy technologies, eHealth
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Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Courses Academic Year 2021/2022
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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
(building no. 10), room 5101
Hallenweg 17
7522NH Enschede
The Netherlands
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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn
5101
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands