Charis Thompson

Associate Dean, Computing, Data Science and Society; and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Degree in Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology, Oxford University; PhD, Science Studies program, University of California, San Diego. NSF Postdoc in the Science and Technology Studies Department, Cornell University. Former faculty in the History of Science Department, Harvard University. Currently, Chancellor's Professor and Associate Dean for Computing, Data Science and Society, and former Founding Director, Science, Technology, and Society Center, University of California, Berkeley; Author of: Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (2005); Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research (2013). Recipient, Rachel Carson Award, Society for the Social Study of Science (2007) and numerous articles; Social Science Division Distinguished Teaching Award. Honorary doctorate in Science and Society, NTNU, Norway. Co-convener of Science and the State seminar at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 2020-21. Served on Global Technology Council on Technology, Values and Policy.

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