Biographies

Former members of the Commission

Prof. Peter WEINGART

Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University

Born 1941 in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany

Study of sociology, economics, business administration and constitutional law, University of Freiburg, FU Berlin and Princeton University

1970 Ph.D. at FU Berlin

1973 - present Professor of Sociology, Bielefeld University

1984 Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

1989 - 1994 Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF), Bielefeld University

1994 - present Visiting Professor, University of Stellenbosch

1994 Director, Institute of Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University

1998 - present Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2000 Visiting Fellow, Getty Research Institute

2008 - present Member, acatech

Selected Publications:

Wissen - Beraten - Entscheiden. Form und Funktion wissenschaftlicher Politikberatung in Deutschland. (with Lentsch,J.) Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2008

Leitlinien Politikberatung. In: Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.), 2008