SciCom – Congresso SciCom PT

Alexandre Quintanilha

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Prof. Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha (IBMC) completed his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1972.

He spent the next two decades at U.C. Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as professor of cell physiology and director of a Centre for Environmental Studies. He moved to the University of Porto as professor of biophysics at the Biomedical Faculty and, until very recently, director of both the IBMC and INEB. He is currently implementing a consortium of the three major biomedical research institutions in Porto.

Over the years he has chaired various committees at the European Science Foundation, the European Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and several other national and international research organizations. His current interests are in the areas of biological stress, risk perception and public understanding of science.

Morgan Meyer

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Morgan Meyer is a lecturer at Agro ParisTech and an associate researcher at INRA. He holds a master in biology, a PhD in sociology and he has been a postdoc at the Department of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation at Mines ParisTech. He has recently been an invited professor at the University of Vienna and a bright ideas visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His current research focuses on two themes:

the spaces and practices of ‘knowledge brokering’ and the boundaries of science;
the emergence, governance and debates on new forms of biology (synthetic biology, do-it-yourself biology).

He has recently edited a special issue on intermediaries between science, policy and the market (Science and Public Policy, 40(4), 2013) together with Matthew Kearnes.

http://ifris.org/membre/morgan-meyer/

Bruce Lewenstein

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:49:17 +0000

Dr. Bruce V. Lewenstein is a widely-known authority on public communication of science and technology–how science and technology are reported to the public and how the public understands controversial scientific issues and “emerging technologies” such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. Trained as a historian of science, he often uses historical case studies in his research. He has also done extensive work evaluating “citizen science” outreach projects, in which citizens fully participate in the scientific process by gathering, entering, and sometimes analyzing scientific data.

Professor Lewenstein’s work has two areas of impact: (1) education for practitioners of public communication of science and technology and (2) shaping of policy research on public knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology. His audiences range from local groups seeking to improve their communication, to national associations, to international settings where students and practitioners gather. Both the education and the policy work are tools of leverage, which ultimately contribute to better public understanding of science and technology.