Helga Nowotny#
| Membership Number: | 166 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.helga-nowotny.eu |
Present and Previous Positions
- Chair of the ERA Council Forum Austria, member of the Austrian Council and Vice-President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
- 2007 - 2010 European Research Council Scientific Vice President and from March 2010 until December 2013 President of the ERC
- 2005 - present Vice-President of the Council
- 1996 - 2002 Professor of Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich
- 1987 - 1996 Professor of Social Studies of Science, Institute for Theory and Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna
- 1980 Habilitation in sociology, Faculty for Sociology, University of Bielefeld
- 1982 Habilitation in sociology, Grund- und Integrativwissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Vienna
- 1969 Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, New York
- 1959 Doctor juris, University of Vienna
Fields of Scholarship
- Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS)
- Science and society
- Epistemology and social organisation of social sciences and humanities
- Social time
- Risk, environment, sustainability
- Science, technology and innovation policy
Honours and Awards
- Ph.D. Honoris Causa, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Lancaster
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Leuven
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Twente
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bergen
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Edinburgh
- Dorothea-Schölzer-Medaille, University of Göttingen
- Distinguished Affiliated Professor, Technische Universität München
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Foreign Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Foreign Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Foreign Member, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- Foreign Member, Royal Society of Science at Uppsala
- 1989 Member, Academia Europaea
- Member, Acatech
- Member, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
- Arthur Burkhardt Preis
- Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich
- Österreichisches Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst I. Klasse
- Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften
- Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien
- Ehrenmitglied Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- John Desmond Bernal Prize for Distinguished Contribution to the Field, International Society for the Study of Science (for life time achievements)
- 2017 Gold Medal of the Academia Europaea
