Center on Nanotechnology & Society advisory panel

Vivian Weil, Ph.D.
Advisory Panel

Vivian Weil is Director of the Center for Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as a member of the Advisory Panel for the Center on Nanotechnology and Society. She is also a fellow of several other organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Governing Board of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics, and the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. In addition, she serves on the editorial boards of Teaching Philosophy; Professional Ethics; Science and Engineering Ethics; and Science Communication (formerly Knowledge). Working on theoretical problems of human action and responsibility, and specializing in issues of professional responsibility, primarily in engineering and science, Weil is co-editor of Owning Scientific and Technical Information: Ethics and Value Issues, and editor of Beyond Whistleblowing: Defining Engineers' Responsibilities and Trying Times: Science and Responsibilities after Daubert. She is also currently the principle investigator on a NSF-funded research and writing project, Software Engineers Acquire a Code of Ethics, studying the beginnings of professionalization of software developers, and an NSF-funded project on ethics research in a large nanotechnology facility at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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