Appointments & Fellowships

KNAW visiting professors programme

by Jeannette Haagsma 6 December 2010

The VKS has nominated Katy Boerner for the KNAW visiting professors programme, and the award has been granted. Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Adjunct Professor at the School of Informatics and Computing, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the [...]

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New appointment for Paul Wouters

by Jeannette Haagsma 26 August 2010
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Prof. dr. Paul Wouters (1951) is the new director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Centrum voor Wetenschaps- en Technologie Studies) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He will take up this appointment on 1 September 2010. Wouters has also been awarded the research chair in Scientometrics at the Faculty of Social and Behavioral [...]

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Paul Wouters nieuwe directeur CWTS

by Jeannette Haagsma 26 August 2010

Prof. dr. Paul Wouters is per 1 september door het Leidse College van Bestuur benoemd tot directeur van het Centrum voor Wetenschaps- en Technologie Studies (CWTS) van de Universiteit Leiden. Tegelijkertijd zal hij de leerstoel Scientometrie gaan bekleden. Tot 31 december 2010 zal hij tevens 1 dag per week  werkzaam blijven als programmaleider van de Virtual Knowledge Studio. Meer [...]

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2-Year Postdoc: User Perspectives on Genetic Tests

by admin 21 April 2010

2-Year Postdoc: user perspectives on direct to consumer psychiatric genetic tests The Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio(VKS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University and the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter are seeking a post-doctoral researcher to work for two years on an ESRC/NWO-funded project ‘Selling genetic tests online: [...]

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VKS Spring 2010 Postdoc fellow

by admin 1 February 2010
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In April Christina Dunbar-Hester joins the VKS as a 3-month Postdoc fellow from New York, where she is a Fellow in Technology and Activism and adjunct instructor in Media, Culture & Communication at New York University.  Go here for more information about Christina.

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