The Pandemicene Podcast aims to produce knowledge that can help all of us – scholars and scientists, students and activists – imagine and enact just futures both in our home state of California and in our communities worldwide.
Airing on KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FM, on Sunday, December 13th, 6:30 – 7 pm PST.
Link to the live stream, or listen below after the episode airs.
Welcome to the Pandemicene podcast! Today we welcome you to a conversation with Ruth Müller.
Interviewer Bios:
Isa Ansari recent graduate from the sociology department at UCSC. She was born and raised in the East Bay, where she currently lives and organizes. Isa loves skateboarding, reading, and writing poems.
Guest Bio:
Ruth Müller is a researcher in the interdisciplinary research field of Science & Technology studies. She has studied molecular biology (M.Sc.; 2000-2007) and sociology (PhD; 2007-2012) at the University of Vienna, Austria. During her studies, she conducted research on breast cancer at the Medical University of Vienna (2001-2005) before she started to work on issues of life sciences, society & policy at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna (2005-2011). She held postdoctoral positions at the Austrian Institute of International Affairs (2012-2013) and at the Research Policy Institute, Lund University, Sweden (2013-2015), and she has been a recurring visiting research the Science & Justice Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.. In February 2015, she was appointed Assistant Professor of Science & Technology Policy at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, a co-appointment with the TUM School of Management and the TUM School of Life Sciences.