Michael Nentwich
Michael Nentwich (born May 20, 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lawyer, science and technology researcher, technology assessor and director of the Institute for Technology Assessment in Vienna.
life and work
Born and raised in Vienna, Nentwich studied commercial science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and political science and law at the University of Vienna , where he obtained his Mag. Iur. graduated and in 1995 with a thesis on European food law for Dr. jur. PhD. In 1989/90 he completed postgraduate studies in European law at the Europa Kolleg in Bruges . In 2004 he completed his habilitation in science and technology research at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the effects of the Internet on science. He coined the term cyber sciences .
Nentwich began his work in technology assessment in 1990 as a research assistant at the Research Center for Technology Assessment (the predecessor of the Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) ) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences with projects on environmental impact assessments , consumer cards and telecommunications law . Between 1991 and 1996 he was a university assistant at the Research Institute for European Issues at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; During this time numerous publications on European law and the constitutional policy of the European Union were produced . In 1994/95 he spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Warwick and the University of Essex (England), and published a book on the development of the European constitution (together with Gerda Falkner ). From 1996 to 2005 he worked as a research assistant at the ITA, mainly in the field of information society . Another year abroad in 1998/99 as a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne was dedicated to his research on the subject of the Internet and science. He has been director of the ITA since 2006, and between 2011 and 2015 he was also deputy chairman of the conference of institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .
Among other things, Nentwich was the initiator and founding editor of the first open access journal in the field of European integration research ( European Integration online Papers (EIoP) ), the initiator of an open access archive for European research ( European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) ) and the first Living -Reviews in the social sciences based on the model of the Living Reviews in Relativity of the Max Planck Society ( Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) ).
Publications (excerpt)
Michael Nentwich is the author and editor of numerous books and articles in scientific journals and edited volumes. His last two volumes were on the effects of the Internet on science
- Cyberscience. Research in the Age of the Internet . Vienna 2003 ISBN 978-3-7001-3188-5 .
- Cyberscience 2.0. Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks (with René König). Frankfurt / New York 2012 ISBN 978-3-5933-9518-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Michael Nentwich in the catalog of the German National Library
- M. Nentwich in the ISBN database
- M. Nentwich on Google Scholar
- Personal homepage at the ITA
- Personal Wikipedia profile
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nentwich, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian technology impact assessor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |