Barbara Prainsack#
| Membership Number: | 4889 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/prainsack |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6335-1532 |
| Twitter: | @bprainsack |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-prainsack-9807252/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- From October 2017 Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, AT
- From September 2014 Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College London, UK
- Jan 2013 - August 2014 Reader in Sociology, Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College London, UK
- Sept 2011 - Dec 2012 Professor of Sociology and Politics of Bioscience, Department of Sociology and Communications, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, West London, UK
- Sept 2010 - Aug 2011 Reader in Medicine, Science and Society at the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), King’s College London, UK
- April - July 2010 DAAD Visiting Professor (Gastdozentin) at the Department of Sociology, Goethe University in Frankfurt, DE
- Sept 2007 - Aug 2010 Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS), School of Social Science & Public Policy, King’s College London, UK
- 2006 - 2007 Research Associate, Life Science Governance Platform, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, AT
- 2004 - 2005 Post-doctoral researcher, Life Science Governance Platform, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, AT
- January - June 2002 Visiting doctoral student at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, US (advisor: Adele Clarke)
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative science & technology policy
- Health policy
- Data governance
- Regulation of DNA technologies in medicine and forensics
- Practices, institutions and politics of solidarity
- Political, social and ethical aspects of Personalised Medicine
Honours and Awards
- Since 2017 Elected Foreign Member, Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Since 2017 Member, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (advising the European Commission, appointed by President Juncker)
- Since 2018 elected Board Member, Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine
- Since 2016 Bellagio Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation
- 2015 - 2017 Member, Ethics Group of the UK National DNA Database (NDNAD), Home Office, UK
- 2012 “Best article 2011” award of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft) for “The Power of Prediction: How Personal Genomics became a Policy Challenge”, ÖsterreichischeZeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 40/4: 401-415 (Special Issue on “Public Policy Analysis and the Turn to Interpretation”).
- Since 2009 Member of the Austrian National Bioethics Commission
- 2004 “Best political science doctoral thesis 2003/2004”, awarded by the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA/ÖGPW)
