Career
Since 2013 Patrizia Nanz is head of the research area „Culture of Participation“ at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI). In cooperation with Klaus Töpfer (IASS Potsdam) and Claus Leggewie (KWI) she leads the project “DEMOENERGY – The Transformation of the Energy System as the Engine for Democratic Innovations”. Her main areas of research are public participation and technology assessment (Climate Change, Biotechnology, Energy transition, final storage of nuclear waste), democratic theory, transnational governance and the political project of Europe).