Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies since 1999. She is currently head of the STS department and the interfaculty research platform “Responsible research and innovation in academic practice” at the University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2018 she has been the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on changing academic research cultures, including questions of responsibility, research integrity and ethics in practice as well as on questions concerned with the relation of science/technology and society (governance, participation and democracy). She has published widely covering topics in the life sciences/(bio)medicine, nanotechnology, sustainability/environmental research, social sciences as well as datafication/digitisation in their relation to societal developments. Since 2017 she is president of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
