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Nanobiotechnology: Responsible Action on Issues in Society and Ethics

Nanobiotechnology: Responsible Action on Issues in Society and Ethics
 

Forum

The Nanobio-RAISE Forum is open to all those with an interest in the project or in nanobiotechnology ethics and societal issues in general. Forum members have agreed to contribute to the project and wish to play an active role. The role of the Forum is to provide expertise, experience and advice in all phases of the project including its work programme, activities and publications. We invite further scientists, industrialists, ethicists and other relevant experts to join our Forum. If you wish to join, please contact us: join@nanobio-raise.org
  • Drs Henriette Bout, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henriëtte Bout (1968) studied Medical Biology and Science and Technology Studies in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam. After graduation in 1995 she founded ConScience, a research and consultancy agengy focused on integrity issues. The main subject of ConScience projects is the ethics o..
  • Dr Emilio Rodriguez Cerezo, Action Leader, Sustainability in Agriculture, Food and Health Unit, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, EC-Joint Research Centre, Spain

    Emilio Rodriguez Cerezo is an Agronomist, PhD in Plant Molecular Pathology. He was elected member of the Scientific Committee for Plants of the EU for the period 1997-99 where he evaluated scientifically dossiers for placing in the market GMOs for EU agriculture. He was a tenured scientist in the Ce..
  • Prof Cees Dekker, Molecular Biophysics Group, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

    Prof. dr. Cees Dekker, dr. Nynke Dekker (no relation), and dr. Serge Lemay lead the Molecular Biophysics Group at Delft University of Technology. The research of the Molecular Biophysics group focuses on single-molecule biophysics. The group employs magnetic and optical tweezers, AFM, STM, se..
  • Dr Robert Doubleday, Social Dimensions of Nanotechnology, IRC in Nanotechnology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Dr Robert Doubleday is a social scientist with an interest in the social dimensions of emerging technologies. His research in the field of science and technology studies focuses on the governance of emerging technologies. He is interested in how the changing relations between science and society are..
  • Dr Beatrix Rubin Lucht, University of Basel, Switzerland

    Dr Lucht is a Neurobiologist by training. She is currently working on a project concerned with the ethical evaluation of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the University of Basel The project is associated with a special program "Nanoscale Science”, a National Center of Competence in Research (NC..
  • Dr Patricia Osseweijer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    After her study in molecular biology and microbiology at Utrecht University Patricia Osseweijer has been involved in the development and implementation of a curriculum in Biotechnology and Medical Biology within the University of Nijmegen. Since 1991 she is employed at Delft University of Technol..
  • Prof Arie Rip, Centre for Studies of Science, Technology and Society, Twente University, The Netherlands

    Prof Rip is Professor at the Centre for Studies of Science, Technology and Society, Twente University, The Netherlands, and Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stellenbosch, Republic of South-Africa. He began his career as a chemist but has always had broad..
  • Dr Qasim Chaudhry, Principal Research Scientist, Central Science Laboratory, York United Kingdom

    Qasim Chaudhry has BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemical Toxicology. He is leading research into the safety of materials, products and applications of nanotechnology to human health and the environment, and implications for regulatory controls. 

  • Dr David Rickerby, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy

    David Rickerby obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge and subsequently carried out post-doctoral
    research at the Pennsylvania State University. He then joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, where he conducted research on nanostructured thin films for biomedical ..
  • Mr Seamus Bannon, Forfás Advisory Council on Science, Technology& Innovation Policy and Science Awareness Division, Ireland

    Mr Seamus Bannon is a member of Forfás Advisory Council on Science, Technology& Innovation Policy and Science Awareness Division. And he is specialised in National & EU Innovation Policy and STI Surveys Department.
  • Dr. Antje Grobe , Project manager of the German Delphi-Survey on nanotechnological applications in food, Stutgard, Germany

    During her work as a facilitator and conflict manager at the Risk-Dialogue Foundation over the last ten years, she led stakeholder-dialogues and public dialogues in Germany and Switzerland, regarding public discourses within the fields of energy consumption, genetically modified foods, stem..
  • Andy Miah, Ph.D, Reader in Ethics, Technology and Culture at the University of Paisley, UK

    Is a member of the Nanobio-RAISE Expert Working Group on Human Enhancement

    For more information about his work see: http://www.andymiah.net/