PD Dr. phil. Ingrid Schneider

University of Hamburg
FSP BIOGUM/ FG Medizin
Lottestr. 55
D - 22529 Hamburg, Germany

Telephone: 0049-40- 74 10-5 63 11
Fax: 0049-40-74 10-5 63 15
E-mail: Ingrid.Schneider@uni-hamburg.de

Publications

Selected News Items

Ingrid Schneider comments on the European Court of Justice's ruling on embryonic stem cells (C-34/10) PDF

Professional Status

• University Lecturer in Department of Political Sciences at the University of Hamburg (since 2010)
• Employed as Senior Researcher in the Research Group Medicine and Neurosciences at the Research Centre for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment (BIOGUM), University of Hamburg (since 2002)

Academic Degrees

• Habilitation and Venia Legendi (postdoctoral qualification) received in January 2010
• Doctorate in Political Sciences at the University of Hamburg in 1996 
• Diploma (M.A.) in Political Sciences completed in 1987
  

Professional Experiences

• University Lecturer: For Political Sciences at the Universities of Bremen and Hamburg, for Management in Health and Social Affairs at the University for Economy and Policy Studies in Hamburg, and in History, Ethics, and Technology Assessment at the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg (1990 - to date).
• Policy Advisor: a member of the Parliamentary Study Commission “Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine” in the German Bundestag (2000-2002), a scientific expert at a number of expert hearings in the European Parliament, the European Patent Office, the German Bundestag and the Swiss and Austrian Parliaments (1996 - to date).
• Former Employment: Several years of professional experience in international relations and development policy (Senate Chancellery of the State of Hamburg, and Institute for Iberoamerican Studies) and in the media.

Member of Scientific Advisory Boards

• German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) (2010 - to date)
  
• Standing Advisory Committee before the European Patent Office (SACEPO)
  (2009 - to date)
• Board member of the EPIP Association (European Policy for Intellectual Property) (EPIP) (nominated 2010)
• Research Project ‘Genomics, intellectual property and global justice’, Wageningen University, NL (2010-2012)
• Research project ‘Biomarker Governance’ at the University of Vienna, AU, GEN-AU funded, platform ‘Life-Science-Governance’(2009-2011)

Research Focus

• Policy Analysis and Theory of Democracy
• National, Transnational and Supranational Governance
• European Integration Research
• Juridification, Regulatory Agencies, Law and Innovation
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Social Studies of Science (STS)
• Technology Assessment, particularly on biomedical technologies