Vrije Univesity of Amsterdam + Rathenau Institute

Post-Doc, Community Genetics (Vrije Uni) + Technology Assessment (Rathenau)

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Thesis Title: The social construction of patients, their involvement, and new medical technologies: The case of pharmacogenetics

About

I am a sociologist of science and technology, or STSer for those familiar with science and technology studies (STS).

My current work focuses on the user configuraton in Dutch bio-banking (at the Vrije University's Section Community Genetics), as well as health policy implications resultant from synthetic biology (at the Rathenau Institute).

While working in the Netherlands, I am a Canadian who has lived in the UK (where I did my PhD at the University of York with Andrew Webster); Taiwan, Italy, and the Netherlands previous to this current stint (I did my MSc in STS with the late Olga Amsterdam and Annemiek Nelis at the UvA).

I am particularly interested in the sociology of genetic sciences, and medically related ones in particular. I have conducted social science research on pharmacogenetics, biobanking (UK), pathogenomics, bioinformatics, metagenomics (or ecogenomics), synthetic biology, and more biobanking (The Netherlands). While the sciences I study may vary, my analytical focus tends to be on 'users' and their role in the technological development process.

Outside of academia(.edu) I am also a bit of a basketball fanatic (mostly playing, but also spectator), I love to sail (not race), travel, and spend time with my family and frends (preferably over good food that I have cooked and some wine that they have brough). 

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