Lorenzo Beltrame has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research (University of Trento, Italy). He collaborated with the Science Technology and Society Programme (STSTN) of the University of Trento. Currently he is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria.
Gwendolyn Blue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary.
Kelly Bronson is an Assistant Professor and the Acting Director of Science and Technology Studies at St. Thomas University, Canada. Kelly has a history on the lab bench but now works on bringing citizens into S&T policy-making. She is currently developing a science communication and public policy laboratory at St. Thomas. Drawing on Kelly's previous work with anticipatory governance, one of the lab's first empirical projects is to devise a locally-appropriate strategy for engaging citizens in provincial energy development.
Martha Kenney is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Women's Studies Program at Duke University and will take up the position of Assistant Professor in the Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University in Fall 2014. She completed her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz under the direction of Donna Haraway. Located in the tradition of feminist science studies, her work focuses on the politics of method and the politics of storytelling in technoscientific worlds, including those of Science and Technology Studies. She is one of the founding members of the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, where she and Ruth Müller conducted the project that is featured in their article.
Filippa Lentzos is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London. She is a sociologist focused on the intersection of political and security aspects of the life sciences. She is especially interested in the social shaping of risks and threats, and the particular way in which the threat of biological weapons and bioterrorism, and the social, political, legal and economic responses to it, have emerged and been configured in distinct polities.
Janet Martin-Nielsen is Postdoctoral Fellow at Aarhus University's Centre for Science Studies. Her research currently focuses on the history and culture of climate modeling. Her recent book is called: Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Power at the Center of Greenland (2013). She has also published in Annals of Science, Journal of Historical Geography, Centaurus, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and History of the Human Sciences.
Jennifer Medlock recently completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.
Lisa Jean Moore is a medical sociologist at Purchase College SUNY. Her co-authored ethnography of New York City’s bees and beekeepers, Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and The Power of the Bee, is available from NYU Press. Other books include Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility and Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid (both NYU Press). The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections (Routledge), co-authored with Monica J Casper, is due out in late 2014. Currently researching horseshoe crabs on Plumb Beach in Brooklyn, she is writing a multispecies ethnography.
Ruth Müller is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Policy Group, Lund University, Sweden. The article in this issue is based on her research as part of the ‘Living Changes in the Life Sciences’ project at the Department of Science & Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2012. Ruth Müller's work investigates the relations between research policy, institutional structures, norms and values, and the social and epistemic practices of scientific knowledge production. She is currently exploring these questions in climate science and in the post-genomic life sciences, particularly in epigenetics.
Henry Nielsen is Associate Professor Emeritus at Aarhus University's Centre for Science Studies. He has been active in the fields of physics, science education, and the history of science and technology. His publications include Neighbouring Nobel: The History of Thirteen Danish Nobel Prizes (co-edited book, 2001), Science in Denmark: A Thousand-Year History (co-authored book, 2008), and articles in History and Technology, Centaurus, Technology and Culture, and Business History Review.
Kristian H. Nielsen is Associate Professor at Aarhus University's Centre for Science Studies. His research interests cover many aspects of the history of science and technology in the 20th century. He has published in journals such as Public Understanding of Science, British Journal for the History of Science, Science Communication, Annals of Science, Engineering Studies, New Global Studies, and Centaurus.
Antoine Roger (Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Bordeaux, France) is Full Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux (France), member of Institut universitaire de France and of Centre Emile Durkheim (CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France). He has research interests in comparative political sociology, economic sociology and sociology of science. His current work focuses on the definition of legitimate and illegitimate economic activities in the European Union, with a special focus on agriculture. His recent publications have appeared in Revue française de science politique, Sociologie du travail, Politix, Cultures & Conflits, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Comparative European Politics, International Review of Sociology, Development and Change.
Vienna Setälä holds a Ph.D. position in the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki. She has a background in evolutionary biology and is now completing her thesis on the public communication of science.
Esa Väliverronen is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Helsinki. He leads the programme of Science Communication at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki.