Daniel Barben

Barben studied Sociology, Psychology, Political Science and Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin [1] from 1982 to 1989. He gained his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam [2] in 1995. He habilitated at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, FU Berlin, in 2004. From April 2010 to December 2013 he held a chair of futures studies at the Institute of Political Science at Aachen University RWTH Aachen.

Since 2014 he holds a chair of Science, Technology and Society Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. His main fields of research are the interdependencies between processes of technical and social changes facing global problems in health, nutrition, energy, mobility, demography and climate matters.

• Converging Technologies, Transhumanism, and Future Society. In: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Kenneth Mossman (Ed.): Building a Better Human? Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism. Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien 2012: Peter Lang, 379-396.
• Acceptance Politics." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 4-5.
• Anticipatory Governance." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 17-18.
• Innovation." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 335-337.
• Reflexive Governance." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 654-655.
• Social Science." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol.2. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 724-726.
• Glossary of Nanoscale Science and Engineering." In: David H. Guston (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, Vol. 2. Thousand Oaks, Cal. 2010: Sage Reference, 803-809.
• Reflexive Governance toward Sustainable Development: Combining Deliberation, Anticipation, and Transformation." Talk. 1st European Conference on Sustainability Transitions: Dynamics and Governance of Transitions to Sustainability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Security, Identification, and Citizenship: The Configuration of Biometrics in National and Transnational Contexts." Poster presentation. Gordon Research Conference on Governing Emerging Technologies, Big Sky, MT.
• Anticipatory Governance of Nanotechnology: Foresight, Engagement, and Integration." In: Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael E. Lynch, Judy Wajcman (Eds.): Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Third Edition. Cambridge, Mass. 2008: MIT Press, 979-1000.
• Analyzing Acceptance Politics: Towards an Epistemological Shift in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology." In: Public Understanding of Science, 19(3), May 2010, 274-292 (first published online as doi:10.1177/0963662509335459, June 26, 2009).