Dr. phil.

Nina Klimburg-Witjes

Nina Klimburg-Witjes

Member of the Young Academy since 2023

  • Universität Wien

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Orcid-ID:

0000-0003-0583-8788

Research Areas:

  • Social Sciences
  • Social studies of science
  • Kritische Sicherheitsforschung
  • Science and Technology Studies

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • Elected Council Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), (2021-2025)
  • Science and Democracy Network (SDN)
  • Social Sciences of Outer Space Network (SSOSN)

Selected Prizes:

  • ERC Starting Grant (2022)

Selected Publications:

  • Klimburg-Witjes, N. (2021). Shifting Articulations of Space Security: Boundary Work in European Space Policy Making. European Security.
  • Klimburg-Witjes, N. (2023): A rocket to protect? Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Strategic Autonomy in controversies about the European rocket program. Geopolitics doi: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2177157.
  • Klimburg-Witjes, N., Pöchhacker, N., Bowker GC. (eds). (2021). Sensing In/Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures. Mattering Press: Manchester, UK.
  • (Klimburg-) Witjes, N & Olbrich, P (2017). Fragile Transparency: Satellite Imagery and the Making of International Security Issues, In: Science and Public Policy.
  • Klimburg-Witjes, N. & Wentland, A. (2021). Hacking Humans? Social engineering and the construction of the “deficient user” in cyber-security discourses. Science, Technology and Human Values. doi: 10.1177/0162243921992844.