Elizabeth S. Barron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Planning and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Geography from Rutgers University in 2010, after which she completed a three year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Her work on environmental governance and conservation incorporates critical social theory and biogeography to explore multiple discourses of nature, environmental management and decision-making. She has published research in a range of scholarly journals including The Canadian Geographer, Society and Natural Resources, and Fungal Ecology
Kelly Bergstrand is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona and specializes in social movements, environmental sociology, and social psychology. Her current research projects include examining the role of grievances in mobilization, investigating activism on the US–Mexico border, and mapping the community impact of environmental disasters.
Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, head of the STS Department at the University of Vienna, and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in physics/mathematics and a habilitation in Science and Technology Studies. Her research interests gravitate around issues of governance, democracy and public participation in technoscience, changing research cultures, as well as the role of time in science and society issues. She has published widely in these fields. Her work is often comparative between national contexts and between technological or scientific fields (especially life sciences, biomedicine and nanotechnologies). She has been invited professor at numerous universities and has been involved in policy advice to the European Commission as well as to national bodies. From July 2002 to June 2007 she was editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed Journal Science, Technology, & Human Values.
Erik Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and in the School of Politics and Global Studies, and is Associate Director for integration at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. He is interested in persistent policy problems associated with the distributed and multi-level governance of science and technology in society.
Mads Dahl Gjefsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, project manager at the Norwegian Board of Technology, and a visiting scholar at University of Wisconsin Madison (STS) and Oshkosh (Geography). He is broadly interested in knowledge/governance dynamics.
Chris Hables Gray, Ph.D., studies cyborg society (ed. The Cyborg Handbook, Cyborg Citizen), and the role of information technologies in social conflict (Postmodern War, Peace, War and Computers). He lectures for Crown College at the University of California at Santa Cruz and is Vice-President for Organizing for UC-AFT, which represents the librarians and lecturers of the University of California campuses.
Sang-Hyun Kim is Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, South Korea. He holds a PhD in chemistry from Oxford, and in history and sociology of science from Edinburgh, and is currently involved in the HK Transnational Humanities Project funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea. His research interests include the history and cultural politics of science and technology (and of the social sciences) in twentieth-century Korea, the politics of knowledge and expertise, and critical development studies.
Les Levidow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University, UK, where he has been studying agri-food-environmental issues since the late 1980s. He is co-author of two books: Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting (Routledge, 2006) and GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy (Routledge, 2010).
Claudia Neubauer was the Directrice of the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes since its 2002 inception until 2014. She now works at La Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le Progrès de l'Homme (FPH), also based in Paris.
Amit Prasad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Missouri-Columbia. His research focuses on transnational and postcolonial features of science, technology, and medicine. He is the author of Imperial Technoscience: Transnational Histories of MRI in the United States, Britain, and India (MIT Press, 2014).
Lilla Vicsek, Ph.D. conducts research at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy at Corvinus University of Budapest on the gender culture of organizations and research related to the sociology of science and technology. Her recent publications dealt with the media framing of stem cell research/treatment and the role this played in shaping public understandings of the issue; they have appeared in Science Communication and New Genetics and Society.
Mark Winskel is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh. He is an experienced interdisciplinary energy researcher and research manager, with degrees in physical, environmental and social sciences, and postdoctoral research work in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Between 2009 and 2014 he was Research Co-ordinator for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). UKERC is supported by the UK Research Councils under Natural Environment Research Council award NE/G007748/1. The views expressed in his article are the author's own, rather than those of his funders or employers.