Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D.
Helga Nowotny is President of the ERC, the European Research Council. She is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).
Most influential women of the past year
In the weekend edition of Financial Time, FT writers and editors selected the most influential women of 2011 in various fields and Helga Nowotny is listed in the field of Technology & Science.
"Helga Nowotny : The leading Austrian social scientist became president of the European Research Council in 2010. Scientists regard the ERC as Europe’s most successful science funding body. "
» Finacial Times Weekend Edition December 2011

Falling Walls Conference 2011
Helga Nowotny at the Falling Walls conference 2011 with Rebecca Cassidy, Nick Barton, Mary Kaldor and Jean-Luc Lehners.
Positions
President European Research Council
since 2010 (2007-2010 Vice-President)
Member of the University Council of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
since 2005
» Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Member of the Jury,
Prix Claude Lévi-Strauss
since 2009
Member of the Holberg Prize Academic Committee
since 2008
Member of the Steering Committee ESOF2012 Dublin
Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science Magazine
Member of the Editorial Board of Science and Public Policy
since 2008
