DEPARTMENT OF SOCIETY, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Erik Aarden

Deputy Head of Department
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Erik [dot] Aarden [at] aau [dot] at
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Campus-Portal profile | Courses | Research

Research areas / ÖSTAT - Subject areas

Biobanking
Genomics; social aspects
Health policy
Research policy
Social studies of science
Technology studies

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Positionen

seit 2020 Universitätsassistent am Institut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität Klagenfurt

2014-2020 Postdoc am Institut für Wissenschaft- und Technikforschung, Universität Wien

2012-2014 Marie Curie Fellow, Harvard University Program for Science, Technology, and Society (USA) & Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University (NL)

2011-2012 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter, VDI-Professur für Zukunftsforschung, RWTH Aachen (D)

2008-2010 Researcher, Department of Technology and Society Studies & Department of Health, Ethics, and Society, Maastricht University (NL)

2004-2010 Doctoral research assistant, Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Maastricht University (NL)

Education

2010: PhD, Maastricht University, Department of Health, Ethics and Society (NL); Dissertation: ‘Politics of Provision. The Co-production of Genetic Technologies and Health Care Arrangements in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.’

2007: Visiting fellow, Harvard University Program on Science, Technology, and Society (USA)

2004: MA, Maastricht University, Arts & Culture (NL)

2003: Exchange student, Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna (I)

Selected Projects

Selected Publications

2023
Erik Aarden: Infrastructuring European scientific integration: Heterogeneous meanings of the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI–ERIC. Social Studies of Science, SAGE Publications USA, Thousand Oaks (CA), 2023,
Pouya Sepehr, Erik Aarden: Between straight lines and winding alleys: Streets as boundary objects in the transnational modernization of urban planning in Iran.. Politics of urban knowledge. Historical perspectives on the shaping and governing of cities., Routledge , New York, 2023, S. 179 - 200.
2022
Erik Aarden: Ignorance and the paradoxes of evidence-based global health: the case of mortality statistics in India’s Million Death Study. Science as Culture, Taylor & Francis, 2022,
2021
Erik Aarden: "Samples are precious": Value formations in the potentiality and practices of biobanking in Singapore. Science, Technology & Human Values, SAGE Publications USA, Thousand Oaks (CA), 2021,
Erik Aarden, Luca Marelli, Alessandro Blasimme: The translational lag narrative in policy discourse in the United States and the European Union: a comparative study.. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Nature Publishing Group, New York, 2021,

Aarden, E., (2019). Decoding the Million Death Study: Ambivalence of Producing Evidence on Mortality in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(50), 41-48.
Pfotenhauer, S., J. Juhl, & E. Aarden (2019). Challenging the “deficit model” of innovation: Framing policy issues under the innovation imperative. Research Policy, 48(4), 895-904, https://doi-org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.015
Aarden E., (2018). Repositioning biological citizenship: State, population and individual risk in the Framingham Heart Study. Biosocieties. 13(2), 494-512, 10.1057/s41292-017-0081-0
Aarden, E. (2017). Projecting and producing ‘usefulness’ of biomedical research infrastructures; Or why the Singapore Tissue Network closed. Science and Public Policy, 44(6), 753-762., https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scx010
Aarden, E. (2017). Making value(s) through social contracts for biomedical population research. In; V. Pavone & J. Goven (Eds), Bioeconomies: Life, technology and capital in the 21st century. Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55651-2_7
Aarden, E. (2016). Constitutions of justice in genetic medicine: Distributing diagnostics for familial hypercholesterolemia in three European countries. Critical Policy Studies, 10(2), 216-234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2015.1024704
Aarden, E., & D. Barben (2013). Science and Technology Studies. In: Simonis, G. (Ed.) Konzepte und Verfahren der Technikfolgenabschätzung. Wiesbaden; Springer VS, pp. 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02035-4_3
Aarden, E., I. Van Hoyweghen, & K. Horstman (2011). Constructing access in predictive medicine. Comparing classification for hereditary breast cancer risks in England, Germany and the Netherlands. Social Science and Medicine, 72 (4), 553-559) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.033
Aarden, E., I. Van Hoyweghen, & K. Horstman (2010). Solidarity in practices of provision. Distributing access to genetic technologies in health care in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. New Genetics and Society, 29 (4), 369-388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2010.528191

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