Wolfgang
van den Daele

Social Science Research Center, Berlin

1958-1963      Attended the Universities of Hamburg, Tübingen, and Munich,
                       Federal Republic of Germany; studied jurisprudence and philosophy;
1968               Received Dr. jur.
1970-1980      Researcher at the ¬Max Planck Institute for the Research of Living Conditions 
                       in the Scientific-Technical World, Starnberg, Germany. Did research in the
                       social history of science, and on the theory of scientific development and
                       political
                       control of science and technology.
1981-1982      Visiting professor, Department of Scientific Development, University of 
                       Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1982-1989      Researcher in the Department of Science Research, University of Bielefeld,
                       Germany.
1988               Professorship in Science Research.

Carried out work on the ethics of research, and the relationship of scientific-technical development and changing values in society; did research on technology assessment in the field of modern biology.

Professor of Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany  

1989 till present   Director of the research unit "Standard-setting and Environment", Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany.