Annemiek Nelis

Annemiek Nelis (1970) studied Health Science at the University of Maastricht. Her PhD thesis (1998) was supervised by Arie Rip and deals with the development of clinical genetics and DNA-diagnostics in the Netherlands. After receiving her PhD she became a research fellow at the Science And Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) of Andrew Webster, at the time located in Cambridge (UK). Before her arrival at the Centre for Society and Genomics in September 2004, she worked as a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit and at the University of Amsterdam.

Annemiek Nelis is general director of the Centre for Society and Genomics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Her research interests concern the relation between society and (genetic) technology. Her current research focuses on the role of patient organisations in the development of new genetic technologies and on the methodologies and epistemologies of ELSA genomics research.

nelis@society-genomics.nl
tel. +31 (0) 24 3652735