Theresa Velden studied physics at Bielefeld University and University College Dublin. After several years in positions of responsibility in the area of scientific publishing and information management at the Max Planck Society (1998-2005), she moved to Cornell University. At Cornell, she did her PhD in information science with an external minor in Science & Technology Studies in 2011. In her dissertation research, she studied and compared the sharing behaviour of research groups in chemistry and physics and developed an innovative bibliometric-ethnographic mixed method approach to support the comparative study of scientific fields. As a postdoc, she continued her research first at the Department for Information Science at Cornell University, then at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, where she further pursued the ethnographic study of challenges for interdisciplinary collaboration in data-intensive research projects. She was awarded a Marie Curie/IPODI Fellowship at the Center for Technology and Society (ZTG) at the Technische Universität Berlin for 2016-2018. During this time, she extended her theoretical and methodological knowledge in the sociology of science, and worked on the topics of field-specific forms of Open Science and reproducibility in science. She has been leading the junior research group Field-specific Forms of Open Science at the DZHW since August 2018.
Dr. Theresa Velden
Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics
Head of junior research group
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Academic research fields
Science Studies, Information Science, Integration of quantitative and qualitative methods, Comparative field studies, Scientific communication and collaboration
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Since August 2018
Junior research group leader at DZHW
2016-2018
Marie-Curie/IPODI Fellow at TU Berlin
2012-2016
Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2011-2012
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2012
Instructor: Web Information Systems, Fall 2012, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2005-2011
Ph.D., Information Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2001-2005
Founding Executive Director of Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management, Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany
1998-2001
Managing Editor of Living Reviews in Relativity, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany
1997
Diploma in Physics, University of Bielefeld, Germany