curriculum vitae

Education

2002–2006

Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. PhD in Philosophy of Science. Thesis title: `Weed for Thought. Using Arabidopsis thaliana to Understand Plant Biology'. Supervisors: dr. Henk de Regt and prof.dr. Hans Radder

2000–2001

Department of Philosophy, LSE. MSc in Philosophy and History of Science

1997–2000

Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. BSc in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, First Class Honours

Professional Appointments

2008- present

          Research Fellow. Egenis, University of Exeter

2006–2008

Research Officer. Department of Economic History, LSE

2003–2007

Editor-in-Chief. Graduate Journal of Social Science

2002–2006

Research Assistant. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2002–2003

Co-founder, Chair. Committee for the creation of the GJSS

2000–2002

Research Assistant. Project `Scientific Practice and Epistemology', Center for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, LSE

Language Skills

Scholarships and Awards

• British Academy Small Grant for Project Data-Driven Research in the Biomedical and Biological Sciences, 2009-2010
  
• Marjorie Grene Prize 2007 (best manuscript presented at two previous ISHPSSB meetings by someone who was, at the time of presentation, a graduate student)
• VISU Wiener Kreis Scholarship to attend the International Summer School `The Quest for Objectivity', July 2004
• VU Faculty Grant supporting Academic Visit to Stanford, August 2004
• Konrad Lorentz Institute [KLI] Visiting Scholarship, Vienna, July 2004
• LSE Award supporting my research studies in London for 2001–2002
• AHRB Competition A grant funding my Masters degree for 2000–2001
• Dean's list (UCL graduation class 2000) Jackson Lewis Scholarship for best results of MAPS Faculty, UCL 1999
• UCL Departmental Award as best student for academic year 1998–1999

Teaching and Doctoral Supervision

• 2003, 2004, 2005: Course `Earth Sciences, Philosophy and Ethics', with dr. Henk de Regt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Syllabus reworked.
• 2008-9: Sessions in MA modules History and Philosophy of Biology and Research Methods, University of Exeter. MSc Dissertation supervision.
  
• 2009-2010 and 2010-2011: Co-convenor MA module History and Philosophy of Biology; teaching staff on MSc modules Genomics and Society, Research Methods.
• 2011: Teaching staff for Research Skills and Ethics core module for Biosciences.
  

Professional Associations

• Philosophy of Science Association [PSA]
• International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology [ISHPSSB]
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Wetenschapsfilosofie [NVWF]
• European Association for Science and Technology Studies [EASST]
• Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice [SPSP]
• Society for the Social Study of Science [4S]
• Societa' Italiana di Filosofia Analitica [SIFA]

Professional Services

Reviewer for Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Historica Studies of the Natural Sciences, Synthese, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, the National Science Foundation, the NWO and the Konrad Lorenz Institute. Board Member and reviewer for Science Studies and for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Advisory committee member for GARNet.

Conference Organisation

• (with Thomas Reydon) NVWF Symposium `Philosophy of Biology in the Netherlands and Belgium' (13 Februari 2004, VU Amsterdam)
• (with faculty committee) Free University Opening Conference for Academic Year 2004–5 (2–3 September 2004, Mennorode, Netherlands)
• (with Stefanie Ortmann) GJSS International Workshop on Interdisciplinarity in the Social Sciences: `Unity or Pluralism in the Social Sciences?' (24–25 September 2004, LSE, London)
• (with Henk de Regt and Kai Eigner) International Conference Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding (24–27 August 2005, VU Amsterdam)
• Symposium `Modeling and Experimentation in Biology' (23 May 2006, VU Amsterdam)
• (with Pieter Dehon and Jeroen van Bouwel) Expert Workshop `Science and Social Movements' (27 September 2006, VU Brussels)
• Programme committee for International Conference `Science and Democracy' (Ghent, Belgium, 28–30 September 2006).
• Thematic session: `Scientific Facts: Whose Expertise?' at the International Conference `Science and Democracy' (Ghent, 28–30 September 2006).
• Thematic session: 'BioOntologies: A New Form of Theory?' at the ISHPSSB meeting in Exeter, July 2007
• (with 'facts' group) International Workshop 'Making Small Facts Travel: Labels, Packages and Vehicles' LSE, March 2008
• Workshop 'Governance of Data Sharing', March 2010, Exeter
  
• International Conference 'Data-Driven Research in the Biomedical Sciences', April 2010, Exeter
• Workshop 'WHat is HPS For?', June 2010, Exeter
• Whorkshop 'Mayr's Legacy', September 2010, Exeter
• (with Emma Frow and Gail Davies) International Workshop, February 2011, Exeter.
  
• Fourth SPSP Biannual Meeting, June 2011, Exeter
  

Presentations and Public Lectures

• Expert Workshop `Measurement in Economics and the Natural Sciences', Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam (13th of May 2002): `Understanding Infrared Metaphysics'
• International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Meeting, Vienna (16–20 July 2003): `Understanding the Usefulness of Model Organisms'
• 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo (7–13 August 2003): `Understanding the Usefulness of Biological Models'
• GDPS Lunchtime Practitioner's Lecture, SOAS, London (March 3rd, 2004): `European Social Forum and other activism in Europe'
• Opening conference Faculty of Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (September  7th, 2003): `Can truth be a temptation? The Ethics of Experimentation: Research on Human Subjects in Manchuria, 1932–1945'
• C-SAP Conference `Looking Back, Taking Stock: Reflecting on five years of learning and teaching', Birmingham (18–19 March, 2004): `The Graduate Journal of Social Science: Strategies, Plans, Projects'
• Third Flanders-Netherlands Congress for General and Special Philosophy of Science, Leusden (14–16 May, 2004): `Model Organisms as Biological Models — Where the Theoretical Meets the Material'
• WTMC Workshop, Ravenstein (26–28 May, 2004): `Understanding an Organism in Theory and Practice: Investigations on the Epistemology and Politics of a Model Organism Community'
• International Conference `Knowledge and Imagination', Vrije Univerisiteit Amsterdam (23–25 June, 2004): `Scientific Imagination in Practice: Modelling the Material'
• Brown Bag Invited Seminar, Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna (7 July 2004): `Arabidopsis thaliana as a material and abstract model'
• VISU School, Vienna (26 July 2004): `The Collective Quest for Epistemic Objectivity: Communicative Understanding in Biology'
• 4S/EASST Meeting 2004, Paris (25–28 August, 2004): Session Panel `Assessing Interdisciplinary Methodology': `Disciplined Publishing vs. Interdisciplinary Research? Peer Review in the Graduate Journal of Social Science'
• Invited Lecture at Postgraduate Seminar of the Postgraduate Programme in Philosophy of Science, Instituto de Investigationes Filosoficas, UNAM, Mexico City (12 November 2004): `Where Critical Contextual Empiricism is Not Enough: Understanding within the Arabidopsis Model Community'
• Invited Lecture at Reunion Internacional sobre Historia y Filosofia de la Biologia, Institutio de Investigationes Filosoficas, UNAM, Mexico City (17 November 2004): `What does the materiality of a model have to do with its intelligibility? The Case of Arabidopsis thaliana'
• Research Colloquium Faculty of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (13 May 2005): `From Representation to Understanding.. And Back?'
• International Society of the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Meeting, Guelph, Canada (13–17 July, 2005): `Performing Abstraction: two ways to model Arabidopsis thaliana'
• (with Hasok Chang) Symposium Paper `Models and Scientific Reasoning', University of Amsterdam (24 August 2005): `Intelligibility and the Unified Theory of Radiation'
• International Conference `Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (25–27 August 2005): `Committed to Understand: on theories, models and skills in plant biology'
• International Expert Workshop `A New Form of Experiment? Exploring the Performative Potential of Models and Computer Simulations', Harvey Mudd, California (17–19 October 2005): `Abstracting to Model, Handling to Understand'
• Symposium `Modeling and Experimentation in Biology', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (23 May 2006): `Modeling to Understand: the Case of Model Organisms'
• International Conference `Science and Democracy', Ghent (28–30 September 2006): `Scientific Understanding: A Matter of Which Expertise?' in special thematic session `Scientific Facts: Whose Expertise?'
• 4S Meeting 2006, Vancouver (2–5 November 2006): 'Understanding FActs Across Scientific Communities: Model Organism Research'
• TU Delft, NL (20 November 2006): Invited Lecture 'Understanding Facts Across Scientific Communities
• Amsterdam, NL (10 April 2007): Public Defense of Doctoral Dissertation 'Weed for Thought. Using Arabidopsis thaliana to Understand Plant Biology'
• Leusden, NL (18–20 May 2007): Keynote Speaker at the Biannual Congress of the Nederlandse Vereniging Wetenschapfilosofie (Dutch Society for the Philosophy of Science) 'The Travels of Biological Knowledge about Model Organisms. Can We Have Integration Without Theoretical Unification?'
• VU Amsterdam, NL (21–23 June 2007): Expert Workshop 'The Commodification of Academic Research'
• Exeter UK (25–27 July 2007): Biannual Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology [ISHPSSB]
• TU Twente, NL (23–25 August 2007): Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice [SPSP]
• Madrid, SP (5 October 2007) Workshop.
• British Academy, London (December 2007): 'Circulating Facts About Organisms'.
• LSE, London (February 2008): Labels, Vehicles and Packages.
• LSE, London (April 2008): 'Making Small Facts Travel'
  
• SEMM, Milan (9 June 2008): Invited Lecture `Assessing the Impact of Bio-Ontologies on Biological Research'
• Edinburgh, BBSRC Workshop: Invited paper 'Issues in Data Sharing: Model Organism Research'
  
• Oxford, UK (Three Societies Meeting 4-6 July 2008): A Happy Marriage? The Introduction of Bioinformatics in Model Organism Biology'. Paper in thematic session: 'Connecting Disciplines'
• Rotterdam, NL (4S/Easst Meeting 21-23 August 2008): Governing Data Sharing. Bio-Ontologies and the Creation of Labelling Centers'. Paper in thematic session: 'Genomics and Organisation'
• MPI, Berlin (October 2008)
• Egenis, Exeter (January 2009)
• Cambridge, UK (April 2009)
• HPS Workshop, Durham (June 2009)
  
• SPSP, Minnesota (June 2009)
• ICBO, Buffalo (July 2009)
• 100 years of Genetics, JIC (September 2009)
• EGN Conference, Cardiff (October 2009)
• EPSA Conference, Amsterdam (October 2009)
• HPS Seminar, Cambridge (November 2009)
• IEEE Conference, Oxford (December 2009)
• Invited lecture, Madrid (February 2010)
  
• Workshop Governance of Data Sharing (March 2010)
• Conference 'Data-Driven Research' (April 2010)
• Gordon Cain Conference, Philadelphia (May 2010)
  
• International Workshop Scientific Understanding (June 2010)
• International Workshop Theory in Biology, KLI (June 2011)
  

International Visits

• Konrad Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Biology, Vienna (July 2004)
• Carnagie Institute for Plant Biology, Stanford CA (August 2004)
• Instituto de Investigationes Filosoficas, UNAM, Mexico City (Nov. 2004)
• Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre, UK (May 2005)
• Munich Institute for Theoretical Biology, Germany (February 2007)
• JIC
  
• MPI (December 2009)
  

Commentaries Given

• NERDI Workshop `Objects of Objectivity' (UvA, September 18–19, 2003). Comments on Marcel Boumans' paper  `The Reliability of an Instrument'.
• Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology Workshop on `Models in Science and Technology' (Ravenstein, 15–16 April 2004). Comments on Michiel Korthals' paper `Plant Models: Epistemology and Dynamics'
• KLI Expert Workshop `Modeling in Biology' (Vienna, 7–9 July 2004). Introduction to final round-table discussion.
• Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology Workshop on `Explanation' (9–10 December 2004). Comments on Jeroen van Bouwel's paper `Explanation in the Social Sciences'
• WTMC Dissertation Workshop (Soeterbeek, 24–25 February 2005). Comments on Mieneke te Hennepe's paper `The Colours of Life: Early Photography of Skin Diseases'. 
• UvA/UCL Expert Workshop `Middle Range Theory and STS' (Amsterdam, 27–29 April 2005) Comments on papers by Arie Rip (`Haven't we got all the theory we need?'), Catherine Hine (`Multi-Sited Ethnography as Middle-Range Methodology for STS') and Alice Farrands (`Bioethics and Policy for Stem Cell Research: Do We Need a Mid-Range Theory?').
• Dutch-Flemish Network for Philosophy of Science and Technology Workshop on `Experiment in Science and Technology' (1–2 December 2005). Comments on Mary Morgan's paper `Experiments without Material Intervention'
• WTMC Dissertation Workshop (Soeterbeek, 9 March 2006). Comments on Roel Noehaus's paper.
• 'The Epistemic Status of Model Organisms: A Raging Debate in the Philosophy of Biology?'. Commentary to Public Lecture by Rachel Ankeny on the Epistemology of Model Organisms. VU Amsterdam, 10 April 2007.
• 'Facts book workshop', September 2008. Commentaries on papers by Alison Wylie and by Peter Howlett and Aashish Velkar.
  

Workshops, Summer Schools, Conferences

• WTMC summer school `Provoking Essentialisms?', with Steve Woolgar [16–20 September 2002, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• WTMC Workshop `Development of knowledge practices and R&I systems' [5–7 February 2003, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• WTMC Workshop `Standardisation of Technology: A Challenge to STS?' [21–23 May 2003, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• WTMC summer school `Cultures of Technoscience: Ethnography, Humans/Machines and Objectivity', with Lucy Suchman [8–12 September 2003, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• Workshop `Values in Science and Technology', organised by the Dutch-Flemish Network for the Philosophy of Science and Technology [23–24 October 2003, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• WTMC Workshop `Follow the Technology... Technological Innovation and Technology Studies' [4–6 February 2004, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• Workshop `Models in Science and Technology', organised by the Dutch-Flemish Network for the Philosophy of Science and Technology [15–16 April 2004, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• WTMC Workshop `Playing with Technology, Analysing Culture' [26–28 May 2004, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• VISU International Summer School `The Quest for Objectivity', with Micheal Friedman, Helen Longino and John Beatty [18–30 July 2004, Vienna]
• Workshop `Explanation in Science and Technology', organised by the Dutch-Flemish Network for the Philosophy of Science and Technology [9–10 December 2004, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• Workshop `Experimentation in Science and Technology', organised by the [December 2006, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• Workshop `Rationality', organised by the Dutch-Flemish Network for the Philosophy of Science and Technology [April 2006, Ravenstein, The Netherlands]
• Leiden (27 November –1 December 2006): Invited Participant to the Expert Workshop 'Perspectives on Scientific Practices from Science and Science Studies'
• London (12–13 April 2007) Facts Workshop: The Animal/Human Boundary.
• London (15–16 April 2007) Facts Workshop: The Facts/Fiction Ratio.
• Gent, Belgium (21–22 May 2007) Agronomics Consortium Workshop 'Ontologies, Standards and Best Practice'
• London (2–3 July 2007) British Academy conference on Kant.
• Birmingham (13–14 October 2007) Conference 'Nature and its Classification'