Frederic Vandermoere email: fredericvandermoere (at) hotmail.com

Research

FREDERIC VANDERMOERE is a visiting fellow at the STS program in Harvard, post-doc fellow at Ghent University in Belgium (Department of Sociology, Center for Social Theory) and associate researcher at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris.

He received his Ph D in political and social sciences, option sociology, from Ghent University in 2008. In his doctoral thesis he examined the social and ecological correlates of risk perception among people living on polluted soil. Next to risk perception, he studied the associations between residents' psychosocial health and risk-related variables, the process of soil decontamination, and public participation.

His current research focuses on the public perception of nanotechnology in France and Germany, with specific attention for the moral and social contextual covariates of risk perception such as religion, tampering with nature, attitudes toward science and technology, and trust in governmental agencies. He also examines the relations between perceptions about technological food risks, consumer identities, risk regulation and citizenship.

Publications

Vandermoere, F. et al. (forthcoming). The public understanding of nanotechnology in the food domain: The hidden role of views on science, technology, and nature. Public Understanding of Science.

Marette, S. et al. (forthcoming). Impact of Environmental, Societal, and Health Information on Consumers' Choices for Nanofood. Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization.

Vandermoere, F. (2008). Psychosocial Health of Residents Exposed to Soil Pollution in a Flemish Neighbourhood. Social Science & Medicine. 66, 1646-1657.

Vandermoere, F. (2008). Hazard perception, risk perception and the need for decontamination by residents exposed to soil pollution: The role of sustainability and the limits of expert knowledge. Risk Analysis. 28(2), 387-798.