1. Helga Nowotny was born on 1937 and is professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich.
18 Facts About Helga Nowotny
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Helga Nowotny has held numerous leadership roles on Academic boards and public policy councils, and she has authored many publications in the social studies of science and technology.
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Helga Nowotny received her doctorate of jurisprudence at the University of Vienna in 1959.
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Helga Nowotny agreed with the hiring professor that if a more capable man applied for the position, he could have the job.
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Helga Nowotny returned to Vienna to work as an associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Between 1992 and 1995 Helga Nowotny has been President of the International Society for the Study of Time.
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Helga Nowotny conducted an empirical study on the discovery of high-superconductivity research and its impact on research policy and increasingly on the changing relationship between science and society.
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Helga Nowotny has been chair and member of the scientific advisory boards of numerous research institutions and policy-related committees throughout Europe.
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Helga Nowotny is one of the founding members of the European Research Council, which has been established to fund frontier research at EU level based on the sole criteria of scientific excellence and pan-European competition.
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In 2014, Helga Nowotny was appointed chair of the ERA Council Forum Austria, which advises the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research at the interface of European and national research policy.
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Currently, Helga Nowotny is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the University of Vienna.
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From 1998 on, Helga Nowotny was Director of the Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich.
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From 2008 to 2014, Helga Nowotny was a member of the Holberg Committee, which awards the Holberg prize to scholars who have made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law or theology.
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Helga Nowotny has held teaching and research positions at the Institute of Advanced Study in Vienna, King's College, Cambridge, UK, the University of Bielefeld, the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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Helga Nowotny is vice president of the council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
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Helga Nowotny is a Member of Academia Europaea and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2006.
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Helga Nowotny has received an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Twente.
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In July 2013, Helga Nowotny was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University, UK.