Work address: Sensengasse 8/10, 1090 Wien

Phone: +43 1 4277 49616

Email: claudia.g.schwarz@univie.ac.at

Homepage: sciencestudies.univie.ac.at/...

Nationality: Austrian

Languages: English, German, French

Keywords: Social studies of science and technology, nanotechnology, sociotechnical futures, public participation

Claudia Schwarz, Mag.a, born 1982, studied Media and communication Science, English and American Studies, and Sociology at the University of Vienna. She has worked in applied social research and was a scholar at the postgraduate program in Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Currently she is collaborating in the project Making Futures Present. On the Co-production of Nano and Society in the Austrian Context at the Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna. In her PhD project she focuses on citizens' discursive resources and shared experiences in imagining and discussing the future of nanotechnology in Austria and how this relates to policy imaginations.