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UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) includes Professors, Senior Lecturers, Readers, and Lecturers. Then, Teaching and Research Fellows. Finally, Honorary and Emeritus colleagues.
This page lists STS academic staff. This includes those on open-ended and fixed term contracts.
 | Professor Jon Agar Professor Agar writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. | UCL IRIS profile Blog: STS-observatory 0207 679 3521 room 2.2 e-mail: jonathan.agar |
 | Dr Chiara Ambrosio Dr Ambrosio is an expert on the interrelations between science, art, and philosophy. Her research focuses on representations across art and science, nineteenth and twentieth century visual culture, the relations between classical Pragmatism and science, and the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 0166 room 1.2 e-mail: c.ambrosio |
 | Professor Brian Balmer Professor Balmer has been a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University. His research interests include policies for biotechnology and genetics, military technology and arms limitation, and the sociology of science. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 3924 room 2.3 e-mail: b.balmer |
 | Professor Joe Cain Professor Cain's research interests emphasise twentieth-century evolutionary studies, Darwin and Darwinism, exploration and empire, the history of natural history and museum, and science in London. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site 0207 679 3041 room 1.3 e-mail: j.cain |
 | Dr Brendan Clarke Dr Clarke is an expert on causality in medicine using historical cases to examine philosophy of science in practice. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile phone: 0207 679 7132 room 2.1 e-mail: b.clarke |
 | Dr Emily Dawson Dr Dawson is an expert on public engagement, with a focus on equity and different ways diverse communities engage science museums and events. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile phone: 0203 108 4411 room 2.1 e-mail: emily.dawson |
| Professor Sarah Edwards Professor Edwards' research focus on the ethics of health research to answer practical and policy questions raised by new technologies. | UCL IRIS profile phone: 0207 679 4431 e-mail: sarah.edwards |
 | Dr Carina Fearnley Dr Fearnley is an expert in public engagement, focusing on the science of risk and its communication. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site phone: 0207 679 4414 room 1.2 e-mail: c.fearnley |
 | Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon Dr Gouyon is an expert in Science Communication and Science in the Media. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 3490 room 4.2 e-mail: j.gouyon |
 | Professor Andrew Gregory Professor Gregory focuses his research on the history of science in the ancient world, especially the history of cosmology and the relations between magic and science. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 2490 room 1.1 e-mail: andrew.gregory |
 | Dr Phyllis Illari Dr Illari is an expert in the philosophy of science, with research interests in causality and the philosophy of information. | UCL IRIS profile philpapers profile 0207 679 2486 room 1.2 email: phyllis.illari |
 | Professor Frank A.J.L. James
Editor of the Correspondence of Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Concurrently, Professor of History of Science and Head of Collections and Heritage of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 7713 room 2.2 email: frank.james |
 | Dr Simon Jay Lock Dr Lock's research interests are centred around the relationship between science and public,the development of science communication, and public engagement with science and technology. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 3763 room 3.2 e-mail: simon.lock |
 | Dr William MacLehose Dr MacLehose is an expert in Medieval history, including history of medicine and history of the family. He studies intercultural interactions and evolving conceptions of the different stages of life. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 2929 room 1.2 e-mail: w.maclehose |
 | Dr Tiago Mata Dr Mata is an expert in the history and sociology of economics and political science. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile personal site 0203 108 4412 room 3.3 e-mail: t.mata |
 | Dr Melanie Smallman Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies Dr Smallman is an expert on science communication and policy, especially in the area of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile room 4.3 e-mail: m.smallman |
| Dr Jack Stilgoe Dr Stilgoe is an expert in the governance of emerging technologies. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 020 3108 1344 room 2.4 email: j.stilgoe |
| Dr Emma Tobin Dr Tobin is an expert in the philosophy of science; metaphysics of science and philosophy of science in practice. She is particularly interested in the philosophy of biochemistry. | UCL IRIS profile 0207 679 1321 room 2.3 e-mail: e.tobin |
 | Dr Noemi Tousignant Dr Tousignant is an expert in medical anthropology, studying policy development in subsaharan Africa. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile room 4.2 e-mail: n.tousignant |
 | Dr Simon Werrett Dr Werrett is an expert in history of early modern and Enlightenment Science, especially in Europe and Russia. | UCL IRIS profile Academia.edu profile 0207 679 3261 room 1.2 email: s.werrett |
STS Research Fellows and STS Teaching Fellows
 | Dr Cristiano Turbil Dr Turbil researches history of science and medicine in Europe in the modern period. His current research focuses on the history of evolution and the ‘science of the mind’ in Europe, especially how evolution and experimental psychology were discussed by scientists, philosophers and amateurs between 1870 and 1920. . | ResearchGate profile room B14 0207 679 2959 |
 | Dr Erman Sozudogru Dr Erman Sozudogru is an interdisciplinary researcher in philosophy of science with a background in pharmaceutical chemistry. Erman combines philosophy of science and science and technology studies approaches in addressing epistemic and practical questions regarding scientific inquiry. In his PhD thesis, Erman focused on understanding how the broader socioeconomic and political context of Neglected Tropical Diseases shape the scientific practices employed to eliminate these diseases. Erman’s research focuses on understanding the scientific inquiry in its broader policy context. | UCL IRIS profile personal site room B14 0207 679 2959 |
 | Dr Cian O'Donovan STS Teaching Fellow Dr Cian O'Donovan is a researcher and Teaching Fellow at UCL's Department of Science and Technology Studies. His core interest is how innovation is directed towards, and often away from, social progress. His research interests include automation, technology and democracy; the role of politics and institutions in innovation and social change; and cultures of knowledge making, practises and research methods. | room B14 0207 679 2959 |
 | STS Research Associate Dr Patel is currently working as Research Associate on the SISCODE Project. Her research interests center around using physical measurement techniques to import psychological theories within thermal comfort standards as well as comfort in a more general sense. | Room B14 0207 679 2959 |
 | STS Teaching Fellow Alex is teaching the HPSC0121 Sociology of Science and Technology Module during the 2018-19 year. He is currently completing his PhD on A Historical Sociology of Teargas Technology
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STS Emeritus and Honorary academic staff
| Dr Karen Bultitude Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science Communication | email: k.bultitude |
| Professor Hasok Chang Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science | email: h.chang |
| Professor Donald Gilles Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Science and Mathematics | e-mail: donald.gillies |
| Mr Nicholas Maxwell Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science | e-mail: nicholas.maxwell |
| Professor Arthur I. Miller Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science | e-mail: a.miller |
| Professor Steve Miller Emeritus Professor of Science Communication and Planetary Science | e-mail: s.miller |
| Professor Piyo Rattansi Emeritus Professor of History of Science | e-mail: piyo.rattansi |
| Dr Carole Reeves Honorary Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies | email: c.reeves |