past event

Center on Nanotechnology and Society
1st Annual Nanopolicy Conference
Nanoworld: Toward a Policy for the Human Future

David Guston, Ph.D.

David Guston is Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at Arizona State University (ASU). CNS-ASU is a National Science Foundation-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center dedicated to studying the societal implications of nanoscale science and engineering research and improving the societal outcomes of nanotechnologies through enhancing the societal capacity to understand and make informed choices.

Guston's book, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research (Cambridge U. Press, 2000), was awarded the 2002 Don K. Price Prize by the American Political Science Association for best book in science and technology policy. He has also co-authored Informed Legislatures: Coping with Science in a Democracy (with Megan Jones and Lewis M. Branscomb, University Press of America, 1996) and co-edited The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government (with Ken Keniston, MIT Press, 1994). Shaping the Next Generation of Science and Technology Policy, co-edited with CSPO director Daniel Sarewitz, will be published in autumn 2006 by University of Wisconsin Press.

Guston has published numerous articles and book chapters, and has made more than 70 research presentations on research and development policy, scientific integrity and responsibility, public participation in technical decision making, peer review, and the politics of science policy. He is the North American editor of the peer-reviewed journal Science and Public Policy, and he serves on the editorial boards of Nanoethics: The Ethics of Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale, and VEST: Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies.

Guston has served on the National Science Foundation's review panel on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology (2000-2002) and on the National Academy of Engineering's Steering Committee on Engineering Ethics and Society (2002). In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale and a Ph.D. from MIT.