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Janina Schirmer

Janina Schirmer

Janina.schirmer (at) wk.niedersachsen.de

Janina Schirmer currently works as an Academic Officer of Quality Development and Research Management at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies. Janina works in the area of research policy as a senior policy officer at the Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture. She has received a M.A. in Political Science from Hannover University, a M.A. in European Science and Technology-Studies (EASST) from Linköping Universitet/Sweden and Université Louis Pasteur in Stasbourg/France, and was a stipendiary fellow at an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Science Studies at Bielefeld University. She holds a Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) from Bielefeld University. She was a visiting research fellow with the Harvard STS Program during 2007-2008.

Her research during the stay focused on European Innovation policy with an emphasis on frames in European Nanotechnology-Policy in comparison with early European Biotechnology policy.

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