Dr Anique Hommels (A.M.)
Expertise
Anique Hommels is associate professor at the Department of Technology & Society Studies, University of Maastricht. She was trained in the interdisciplinary Arts and Science programme of the University of Maastricht (1991-1995). In her PhD thesis she concentrated on the resistance to change (‘obduracy') in urban sociotechnical transformation processes. A book (Unbuilding Cities - Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change (2005). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press), based on her thesis, was published by MIT Press in 2005 (paperback edition Fall 2008). After her PhD, she worked as a researcher at MERIT/Infonomics (Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology) (2001-2004). At MERIT/Infonomics, her empirical focus shifted to the network society and the problem of vulnerability of sociotechnical systems. In 2003, she was awarded the Brooke Hindle Fellowship from the American Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). In 2005, Hommels was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior (BZK) to monitor the final evaluation of the C2000 project. Together with Dr. T.M. Egyedi and Prof.dr.ir W.E. Bijker she received an NWO-grant for the project "Complex interactions between international standardization and national innovation projects" (2007-2010). Hommels was also one of the pricniple investigators in the ESF/Eurocores project "Europe goes Critical: The emergence and governance of critical transnational European infrastructures" (2007-2009). An edited book, based on this project will be published in 2013 by Palgrave MacMillan. Her current research focuses on urban resilience after a disaster. How can disasters be turned into positive catalyzers for urban innovation?
Professional career history
Degrees
2001
PhD University of Maastricht, Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. Wiebe E. Bijker, Co-promotor: Dr. Karin Bijsterveld
1995
MA Arts and Science, University of Maastricht
1991
Gymnasium A, Jacobuscollege, Enschede
Affiliations
2011-present: Associate professor Science, Technology and Society studies
2003-2011
Assistant professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Maastricht
2001-2003
Researcher, MERIT/International Institute of Infonomics, University of Maastricht
2000-2001
Docent, Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Maastricht
1996-2000
PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Maastricht
1994-1995
Student assistant research project "Understanding the Politics of Technology", Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Maastricht
Research grants and awards
2007-2011
ESF/Eurocores project "Europe goes Critical" (funded by NWO Humanities)
2006-2009
NWO project "Complex interactions between international standardization and national innovation projects" (with Dr. Tineke Egyedi and Prof.dr.ir. Wiebe E. Bijker)
2006
"European Risk Governance" project, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, together with Prof.dr.ir. Marjolein van Asselt and Dr. Esther Versluis
2004
Talent grant (Breedtestrategie) of the Faculty to initiate new research in the "Cultures of innovation" area
2003
Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship (Society for the History of Technology)
2003
Talent grant (Breedtestrategie) of the Faculty to write an article "PROTEE in practice" (with Prof.dr.ir. W.E. Bijker and Dr. P. Peters)
1996
MA thesis award Royal Institute of Engineers of the Netherlands (thesis on the role of expertise in decision making processes about infrastructural changes in the Netherlands)
A.M. Hommels
Associate professor
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