The iCULTURE project aims to prospect new seaweed resources and to generate a catalyst that can convert such seaweed residual side-streams into high value bioactives. In a broader sense, iCULTURE aims to contribute to answer the needs of the marine, feed, food, and industrial pharma sectors by…
Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires novel catalysts, therapeutics, and other functional molecules to meet health demands and enable the sustainable assembly of pharmaceuticals, energy carriers, and other compounds. Discovering these new functional molecules within an…
A study of the innovation ecosystem at NTNU.
In this research project, a novel type of Li-Ion battery is developed. More specifically, the carbon (graphite) that is conventionally used as the battery anode, is replaced by silica harvested from the exoskeleton of Diatom algae. As a social scientist, I am on board the project team. The…
Two things are central to today’s societies: first, these societies are built on technologies, and second, knowledge is crucial in organizing these societies. However, if we look at what kind of knowledge is typically used in governing modern societies, we see a dominance of experts: people with…
Researchers are pulled in various, sometimes contradictory directions by the multiplication of performance metrics and new incentives to align with societal needs. Management structures, funding systems, and publication practices are increasingly influenced by pressures to promote only the…
I was involved in the RespInnBio project, funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), in cooperation with DSM-India. The research concerns socially responsible innovation in agricultural biotechnology.
The MILESECURE-2050 project aimed to understand and overcome the political, economical and behavioural traits and trends that led Europe to its difficulties in reducing fossil fuel consumption, and in diversifying its energy balance at rates which guarantee European energy security in the next…
The DigIDeas project concerned the increasing digitization of our social lives, and investigated this digitization from a philosophical and social-scientific perspective. My role in the project was not very substantial, and mainly consisted of the preparation of the publication below.
The PRISMS project analyses the traditional trade-off model between privacy and security and works towards a more evidence-based perspective for reconciling privacy and security, trust and concern. It has examined how technologies aimed at enhancing security are subjecting citizens to an…
During this postdoctoral project, I explored the question how technological citizenship can be conceived, and how its normative content can be thought to be aligned or misaligned with ideals of sustainability.
My PhD research made up the larger part of this NWO-funded project. The underlying idea was that normative discussions relating to innovations in human genomics can only be understood if we take into account the deep-philosophical understandings of human nature that people hold dear. If these…