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Members in middle Norway. Research activity and projects is presented in personal pages.
Reidar Almås
Professor emeritus and senior researcher, Centre for Rural Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Agricultural politics, Food security, risk and health, Societal consequences of agricultural biotechnology
Disciplinary background: Dr.philos. in Sociology. Established the Centre for Rural Research at the University of Trondheim in 1982, and was the Centre’s Director until September 2007.
Allen Alvarez
Researcher in applied ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Deliberative ethics; multicultural conflicts and globalization; distributive justice; sufficientarianism; political philosophy; bioethics
Tom Andreassen
Ph.D Candidate in Philosophy, Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Intellectual property rights; human rights; global justice; governance
Marie Antonsen
PhD Candidate, Departement for Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Biotechnology; governance; governmentality; public engagement in science and technology; popculture
Disciplinary background: Masters degree in science and technology studies, Bachelor in history, both NTNU
Siri Granum Carson
Associate professor, Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Corporate social responsibility and business ethics; research ethics and professional ethics; ethical theory; political philosophy; philosophy of agency.
Anamika Chatterjee
PhD Candidate, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University for Science and Technology
Area of Expertise: Bioethics, Ethics of Technology, Biotechnology, Responsible Research and Innovation;
Research Interests: I did my Bachelors and Masters of Technology in Biotechnology with a focus on plant tissue culture and plant genomics. Following this, I interned in Novozymes, an enzymes development company and also worked in healthcare market research for a year. However, my interest in the ethics of biological research directed me towards the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics in 2015. During this course I was introduced to the prevailing issues of biomedical ethics and developed a curiosity in the dual use and/or misuse of technology. I am now pursuing my PhD on identifying the ethical dilemmas arising from the practices of adding and extracting from the Gene Regulation Knowledge Commons (Crossover Research 2.0 and NTNUHealth/DrugLogics); understanding how these ethical issues could effect its sustainability, eventually resulting in a Tragedy – of the Commons or the Anticommons; and studying the impact a responsible and effective governance structure can have on addressing such dilemmas and hence, ensuring a sustainable and robust system for knowledge management.
Sophia Efstathiou
Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Interdisciplinary bioscience; founded concepts; found science; philosophy of science and medicine; science studies; ethnography
Disciplinary background: I studied mathematics and physics before turning to philosophy for my masters and PhD. I specialize in philosophy of science and biomedicine and I am developing an account of ‘founded concepts’, concepts based on everyday ideas but founded into scientific contexts so that they work as if they were scientific. This I call ‘found science’ by analogy to found art
Terje Finstad
Researcher, Department of interdisciplinary studies of culture, NTNU
Research areas and interests: Science and technology studies, history, history of medicine, food studies, environmental humanities, consumption and everyday life, biotechnology, animal studies, research policy.
Disciplinary bacground: Bachelor in history, Master in Science and technology studies, PhD in Science and technology studies
Ane Møller Gabrielsen
Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas and interests: Science and technology studies, systems biology, knowledge management; posthumanism; integrated research.
Disciplinary background: Gender studies and STS; PhD in Interdisciplinary studies of culture from NTNU (2015)
Giovanni de Grandis
Postdoc, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Applied Ethics, Bioethics, Personalised Medicine Research interests: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Public Policy, Science Policy, Transdisciplinary studies, Methodology of Applied Ethics
Disciplinary background: Philosophy (Ethics, Political Philosophy), Public Policy
Aud Sissel Hoel
Associate professor of visual communication, Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Visual studies; philosophy of technology; new media; social studies of science; history of science; media studies; phenomenology; post-phenomenology; art theory; aesthetics; visualization; medical imaging
Anja Johansen
PhD candidate, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Art/science collaborations; critical museum studies; feminist technoscience; aesthetics; post-humanities
Disciplinary background: MA in Art History at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU
Henrik Karlstrøm
Postdoc in Science and Technology Studies, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Economic sociology; STS; energy policy; new materialisms
Patrick Kermit
Professor of Disability Research, Department of Social Work and Health Science, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, special education, disability, deafness, sign language, medical technology, cochlear implants
Asle H. Kiran
Researcher of ethical, social and existential consequences of new technologies, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Philosophy of technology; philosophical anthropology; ethics of technology; theory of technological mediation; post-phenomenology
Disciplinary background: PhD in Philosophy of technology, MA in philosophy (philosophy of mind/phenomenology)
Merete Lie
Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Feminist technoscience; assisted reproductive technologies; medical imaging; art/science relations; post-humanities; globalization
Disciplinary background: Social anthropology, interdisciplinary STS, gender studies
Sofia Moratti
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Research areas & interests: “Making gender balance from below”
Alexander Myklebust
PhD Candidate in philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research area & interests: RRI, conceptual history of innovation, transcendental pragmatics
Disciplinary background: Philosophy, Science and technology studies and innovation studies
Bjørn K. Myskja
Professor in ethics and political philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Bioethics; ethics of technology; Aristotelian and Kantian ethics; aesthetics; political philosophy
Heidi Rapp Nilsen
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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Rune Nydal
Associate professor, Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Ethics of science and technology; philosophy of science in practice; ELSA methodology, novel research structures and the shifting role of ethics
Malin Noem Ravn
Researcher, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Cultural perceptions of the body, pregnancy, reproduction and gender; biotechnology and cultural constructions of genes; kinship studies; gender equality as a cultural category
Disciplinary background: Dr.polit in social antropology
Berge Solberg
Professor, Department of Public Health, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Bioethics; prenatal diagnosis, assisted reproductive technologies, research biobanking and research ethics, genetics, new born medicine, rationing in health care.
Disciplinary background: Political philosophy, bioethics
Gisle Solbu
Phd-candidate, Science and Technology Studies (NTNU)
Research areas & interests: RRI, ELSA, nanotechnology, biotechnology, life sciences, science policy
Espen Dyrnes Stabell
Phd Research Scholar, IFR, NTNU
Disciplinary background: Philosophy, Ethics
Research area and interest: ethics, applied ethics, technology, RRI, ethics of risk, Deep Sea Mining
Marit Svingen
PhD Candidate, Centre for Technology and Society, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU
Research interests: Science and Technology Studies (STS). Governance of science and technology; Genome editing; CRISPR Cas9; Human Reproduction; Biotechnology; Emerging technologies. Public engagement in science and technology.
Knut H. Sørensen 
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, Department of interdisciplinary studies of culture, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Science and technology studies, Social studies of climate and sustainable energy, Social studies of information and communication technologies, Gender, science and technology, Science and innovation policy, Innovation and socialisation of technology, Sustainability transitions, Responsible research and innovation, Interdisciplinarity
May Thorseth
Professor of philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology; and Director of Programme for Applied Ethics, NTNU
Research areas and interests: Applied ethics
and political philosophy; deliberative democracy in the realm of digital transition; natural resource management and sustainable development
Lars Øystein Ursin
Researcher, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Department of Public Health and General Practice, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas & interests: Ethics in research; medical ethics; food ethics; ethics of technology; history of ideas; social philosophy; bioethics
Disciplinary background: PhD in Philosophy (Research ethics), MA in Philosophy (Philosophy of mind/Theory of science)
Govert Valkenburg
Researcher, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Research areas & interests: energy, digital technologies, research integrity, technological citizenship, epistemic justice
Disciplinary background: STS, philosophy of technology
Heidrun Åm
Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT), NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Research areas and interests: Nanotechnology; critical perspective on responsible innovation; science governance; and integrated research.
Disciplinary background: Critical policy studies and STS; PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna (2011)
