Door de Nanolens
Publieke debatten over nanotechnologieën
Nederland: http://www.nanopodium.nl
Frankrijk: http://debatpublic-nano.org
Wat is nanotechnologie?
Dossier van het Instituut voor Samenleving en Technologie
Biografieën
Prof. Dr. Lieve Goorden received her PhD in the field of sociology of innovation and labor in 1988, after which she specialized in technology policy and technology assessment. She is now lead academic on the interdisciplinary research project ‘Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow’s Society’ and coordinator of the Technology Assessment Division of the Department of Technology, Energy, and Environment at the University of Antwerp. She has written extensively on the impacts of new technologies on societies and has explored numerous participatory methods to enhance public access to the processes of science. She teaches the course ‘Technology, Law and Society’ in Antwerp.
Dr. Marian Deblonde received training in physics and studied philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has given lectures in philosophy of science at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she conducted her Ph.D research study on the relevance of economics for ecological policy. She has worked in the Department of Technology Assessment at the University of Antwerp since 2002.
Michiel van Oudheusden studied communications sciences, political philosophy and international relations, and worked as a press officer in the Belgian Senate before he became involved in his current interdisciplinary investigation into societal issues related to the emergence of nanotechnologies. His research consists of analyzing and comparing discourses on nanotechnologies in official policy documentation, in nanotechnology institutes’ strategic communication, and in participatory technology assessment (pTA) approaches, to then reflect on the different&It is motivated by the need to reflect with social scientists on the active meaning construction of participation in TA and on its theoretical conceptualization within the pTA framework.
Prof. Dr. Johan De Tavernier serves as director of the Centre for Science, Technology and Ethics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He was appointed the Chaire Francqui in 2002 at the Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Gronomiques in Gembloux, and received the Mgr. A. Janssen-price for theological ethics. He teaches courses on theological ethics, environmental ethics, biotechnology and bio-ethics, applied ethics for engineering students and has edited and published several books and articles in those fields. Since 2000 he is a Board member of EurSafe, the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. His present research in relation to nanotechnologies focuses on assessing the moral issues in the debates on human enhancement.
Johan Evers studied at the Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven before he became an Agricultural Engineer in 2004. He wrote his thesis on the welfare of laying hens in intensive production systems and the development and the use of an ethical matrix. He has conducted research on various topics related to animal welfare. Since February 2006 he is a full time PhD-researcher involved in this consortium’s study of societal and ethical implications of nanotechnologies. His main areas of interest are the ethical issues of nano-applications for humans and their environment, hopes and dangers stemming from human enhancement, and the ethics of engineers.
Dr. Bart Van Poucke is technical business director of the research division DESICS at IMEC. He obtained his electrical engineering degree at the KIHO, Gent, Belgium in 1996. After some years in industry, he joined IMEC in Leuven to work on cross layer optimization for reducing energy consumption in high performance wireless systems. In 2003 he became head of the Ultra Low Power Radio research team, which he recently left to take up a broader, more business and society oriented role.
Dr. Kristien Bonroy is a Project Manager and scientist in the Bioelectronics group in the NEXT department at IMEC. She obtained her Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the KU Leuven in 2001. After her master studies, she worked as a PhD researcher at IMEC in the field of biosensor development. As a result, she obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2005. At this moment, her main research interests are situated in the field of biosensing systems, surface chemistry and biofunctionalized nanoparticles and nanostructures for various biomedical applications.
Ir. Catherine Gorlé has a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the department of Aerodynamics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Her main expertise lies in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), where she gained experience in a wide range of applications during her internship at The Boeing Company and her MSc. research project at BMT Fluid Mechanics. She participated in the development of a CFD model of the upper airway, which resulted in the foundation of FluidDA, a spin-off company from the University of Antwerp. Recently she finished the Diploma Course at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) where she attained the degree with Honours and was awarded the Belgian Government Price. Currently she is working on a PhD. at the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the VKI. The project is closely related to Nanosoc and focuses on the characterization of nano-particles in urban areas, the computational modelling of the dispersion of nano-particles and related health effects.
Dr. Wolfgang Eberle is a senior scientist and project manager of the Bioelectronic Systems group at IMEC. He obtained a master degree (1996) and a Ph.D. degree (2006) in Electrical Engineering from Saarland University, Germany, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, respectively. During his studies, he worked for Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Germany. He has worked for IMEC in various positions from 1997 on until now on digital algorithm and VLSI design, wireless LAN systems, mixed-signal CAD tools, and cross-layer design. Since 2006, he targets once again biomedical engineering with a focus on implantable brain stimulation and recording devices and electronics and microsystems for cell-chip interfacing with applications in medicine, neuroscience, and pharmaceutical research. He has extensive experience in research and project collaboration across multiple disciplines and cultures with both experience in the Western and Eastern hemisphere. He has also been engaged in two start-up companies on ECG analysis with a German company and on integrated wireless LAN chipsets with a US company, respectively.
