Risks, innovation, science & technology
Innovation, science and technology are at the heart of the transformation processes of modern societies. Their development is linked to scientific and societal progress but also to uncertainty and major risks.
Crime and new technologies
What kind of security and criminality in the digital age? Researchers in this field analyze the transformations related to telecommunications, computer risk management, cybercrime and cyberpower.
Academics and definitive scientists
Michaël Dantinne
Vanessa Franssen
Serge Garcet
Scientists
Marion Ballout
Alyson Berrendorf
Marine Corhay
Crisis and risk management
Research and expertise activities focus on the social perception of risks, public policies on risks (GMOs, radioactive waste treatment, food chain safety, nanotechnologies), environmental risk management, emergency planning and crisis management, but also on the management and resolution of siting conflicts.
Academics and definitive scientists
Catherine Fallon
Sébastien Brunet
Scientists
Innovation
Researchers in this field are interested in the changes that occur in scientific institutions and practices and in research and innovation activities. Furthermore, they explore the complex relationships between innovation in society and the different modes of regulation (the rules that organize competition, labor relations, etc.) from a political, economic and legal point of view.
Academics and definitive scientists
Julien Cabay
Patricia Cappuyns
Pierre Delvenne
Jacques Derenne
Catherine Fallon
David Hull
Fabienne Kéfer
Nicolas Petit
Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Scientists
Dirk Auer
France Dachouffe
Jean-Baptiste Fanouillère
Hadrien Macq
Maxime Tecqmenne
Célia Zimbile
Nuclear
Researchers in this field are interested in political, economic and socio-technical questions such as How do we manage our radioactive waste, objects that are toxic to both humans and the environment, and whose lifespan sometimes extends over millions of years? What energy and industrial policies are adopted by public institutions (national and international)? How are nuclear infrastructures built, repaired and dismantled? What are the civil and military uses of nuclear energy?
Academics and definitive scientists
Quentin Michel
Catherine Fallon
Scientists
Science, technology and society
Researchers in this field are interested in how science, technology and innovation are produced, received and contested in different societies. They develop their expertise on the interactions between the cultural, social and political authority of science and other institutions of power.
Academics and definitive scientists
Scientists
Hadrien Macq
Céline Parotte
Fanny Duysens
Jean-Baptiste Fanouillère
François Thoreau
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