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Sigrid Schmitz

Sigrid Schmitz is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. With a PhD in biology (1992) her research and teaching has been covering approaches in gender & science technology studies for more than 20 years with a particular focus on gender aspects in brain sciences and contemporary neurocultures, body discourses in neoliberal societal changes, and in feminist epistemologies.
From 1999-2009 she was a university lecturer at the University of Freiburg,Germany, where she initialized and headed the Forum of Competence “Gender Studies in Computer and Natural Sciences“ [gin] together with Professor Britta Schinzel. Her recent publications are on “The Neuro-Technological Cerebral Subject: Persistence of Implicit and Explicit Gender Norms in a Network of Change” (Neuroethics , 2012) and on “Feminist Approaches to Neurocultures” in Brain Theory: Essays in Critical Neurophilosophy (edited by Charles Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).