Regula Valérie Burri email: burri (at) collegium.ethz.ch

Research

REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI is a sociologist and an associated research scholar at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich. Her research interests focus on the social, political, and cultural implications of science and technology, and involve topics like (visual) knowledge, uncertainty, identity, citizenship, participation, risk, and governance, especially in the fields of biomedicine, biosciences, and emerging technologies. With the support of the Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment (TA-Swiss), she has recently conducted an ethnographic study of a citizen panel on nanotechnologies, health, and environment in Switzerland. Her current research focuses on emerging technologies and public policy, with special emphasis on public engagement.

Regula Valérie Burri is the co-editor of Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life (2007, Routledge), and the co-author of "Social Studies of Scientific Imaging and Visualization," in Ed Hackett et al., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (2007, MIT Press), both with Joseph Dumit.

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