Univ. Prof. Dr. Barbara Prainsack

Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis
Chair - European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE)
Director - Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity

Contact

Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room: B 208
1010 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 23
E-Mail: barbara.prainsack@univie.ac.at
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Office hours

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Teaching assistant: Lena Schober

Teaching

Courses: u:find

Research interests

Health policy; practices, institutions and politics of solidarity; political, social and ethical aspects of Personalised Medicine; data-rich practices in science and medicine; regulation of DNA technologies in medicine and forensics; comparative science & technology policy

Short biography

• Since 2025: Co-director, Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
• Since 2017: Honorary Visiting Professor, Practical Justice Initiative, University of New South Wales (UNSW), AU
• Since 2017: Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna
• 2013-2017: Professor at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London
• September 2011 – Dezember 2012: Professor for Sociology and Politics of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London
• Summer semester 2010: Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt
• 2007: Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor at the Center for Biomedicine & Society, King’s College London
• Fall 2006: Guest Scientist at ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University, Wales
• October 2005: Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Ramkamhaeng University, Bangkok
• 2005-2007: Postdoctoral Student at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
• 2004: Doctoral Thesis on “’Negotiating Life’: The Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cells Research and Human Cloning in Israel“ (Dissertation Award of the Austrian Political Science Association)
• 2002: Visiting Doctoral Student at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
• Study of Political Science at the University of Vienna

National Ethics Councils, governmental and other advisory roles, scientific advisory board memberships (selection)

• Since 2025: Member, Advisory Committee, European Health Forum Gastein
• Since 2024: Board Member, Council for European Public Space
• Since 2023: Advisory Board Member, Centre for Capitalism Studies at University College London, UK
• Since 2022: Elected Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Since 2022: Chair (and since 2017 member) of the European Group on Ethics and New Technologies    (advisory board to the European Commission)
• Since 2021: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Gesundheit Österreich (Austria’s public health agency)
• Since 2021: Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
• Since 2021: Chair of the scientific advisory board of the Theodor Körner Fonds
• Since 2019: Member, Board of Curators, Scientific European Forum Alpbach
• Since 2018: Board Member, Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine (current Vice President and President Elect)
• Since 2017: Elected member, Academia Europeae
• Since 2017: Elected Foreign Member, Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters
• 2015-2017: Member of the Ethics Commission of the UK National DNA Database (NDNAD), Home Office, UK
• 2016: Bellagio Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation
• Since 2011: Member of the British Royal Society of Arts
• 2011-2012: Together with Aarno Palotie and Stephen Holgate: Leader of the „Forward Look“ on Personalised Medicine, European Science Foundation (ESF)
• 2009-2014: Representative of the United Kingdom in the Committee for Social Sciences, European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST)
• Since 2009: Member of the Austrian Bioethics Commission

Bibliography

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Books (selection)

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