Mark Elam is Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently researching the rise of ‘medicinal nicotine’ in Sweden and its role in confirming smoking as a problem of nicotine addiction. He also has a continuing research interest in nuclear waste management policies in international comparative perspective.
David J. Hess is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Vanderbilt University, Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment, Director of Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Sociology Department. His research and teaching is on the sociology and anthropology of science, technology, health and the environment. His books include Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry (MIT, 2007) and Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy (MIT, 2012).
Kerry Holden is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London.
Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner is a Ph.D. Candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis in which he investigates emerging forms of knowledge production in digital scholarship.
Claire Marris obtained a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology in 1990 and an M.Sc. in Science Policy in 1992. Since then, she has been working in the field of science and technology studies. She has been conducting research on synthetic biology since 2009, as part of the EPSRC-funded Centre for Synthetic Biology an Innovation, which is a joint centre between synthetic biologists at Imperial College London and social scientists at King's College London.
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Reader in Sociology and Organisation at the School of Management, University of Leicester. He is co-author of several books, including Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century (Pluto, 2008) and Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is currently completing For a Political Posthumanism. Movements in Technoscience (forthcoming with Duke University Press), a study of alternative interventions in technoscientific culture.
Stevienna de Saille is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust Research Programme Making Science Public. She is based in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.