Center on nanotechnology & society fellows

Ullica Segerstrale, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow

Ullica Segerstrale is a Senior Fellow of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society and on the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. Segerstrale has written and lectured widely on science and social values, the ethics of research, and the relationship between the natural and social sciences. She is the author of Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond (Oxford, 2000), the editor of Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse About Science and Society (SUNY Press, 2000), and the co-editor of Nonverbal Communication: Where Nature Meets Culture (Erlbaum, 1997).

Segerstrale has a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard, an M.A. in communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Helsinki. She has held the position of Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Finland, Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Germany, and Visiting Professor of the interdisciplinary Collegium Helveticum at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Recent research support includes fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Sloan Foundation, as well as a Bellagio residency from the Rockefeller Foundation.