Frédéric Vandermoere was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the program on Science, Technology and Society in 2009-2010. He obtained his PhD in sociology in May 2008 from Ghent University (UGent), Belgium. Shortly after obtaining his PhD he was jointly appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research in Paris and visiting professor at UGent. He currently works as an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Antwerp. His research interests locate in the fields of science and technology studies, sustainability transitions, environmental sociology, cultural studies, sociology of risk and uncertainty, organization studies, and social theory.

His research is diverse in nature – ranging from contaminated communities to the career paths of street artists – and has been published in journals such as Public Understanding of Science, Environment & Behavior, Minerva, Risk Analysis, and Social Science & Medicine.