Johannes Starkbaum has been at IHS since 2018 and works as a Senior Researcher in the research group Social Sustainable Transformation. He is a sociologist and political scientist and completed his doctorate at the University of Vienna in 2019. Between 2015 and 2017, Johannes worked as a consultant for the European Biobank Infrastructure (BBMRI ERIC CS ELSI). Between 2013 and 2015, he was at the FAU University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, where he researched the role of experts and the public in new biotechnologies. J

ohannes has been researching the interaction of science and society in the fields of medicine, mobility and science policy for more than ten years. He taught qualitative methods and comparative policy studies at the University of Vienna and at the ECPR Winter School in Bamberg, Germany. His current research focuses on science for policy, traffic accidents and agricultural innovation, in which he applies a social science mix of methods.