Utrecht University

Faculty Member, Innovation and Environmental Sciences

Assistant Professor

About

Dr. Gaston Heimeriks works as Assistant Professor at the  Department of Innovation Studies, Utrecht University. He has many years of experience as a researcher and policy advisor on science, technology and innovation. A common theme in his work is the understanding and governance of scientific, technological and social change in the information society. He has published on topics such as foresight, ICT methodologies, new modes of knowledge production and research policy (see http://heimeriks.net).

Gaston Heimeriks has a background in biochemistry (MSc) and in science and technology studies (MA). He previously worked as a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences on European projects dealing with the influence of ICT on the development of the science-technology-economy system. His research resulted in a PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2005 and several publications.  Gaston also worked at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in Seville, one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, for the Dutch Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT) and as a senior researcher at STePS Twente