David H. Guston is professor of political science and co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. He is principal investigator and director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. CNS-ASU is a National Science Foundation-funded Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSF # 0531194; $6.2M over five years) dedicated to studying the societal implications of nanoscale science and engineering research and improving the societal outcomes of nanotechnologies through enhancing the societal capacity to understand and make informed choices. He also is co-PI on the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR) project.

Guston is widely published and cited on research and development policy, technology assessment, public participation in science and technology, and the politics of science policy. His book, Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research (Cambridge U. Press, 2000) was awarded the 2002 Don K. Price Prize by the American Political Science Association for best book in science and technology policy. He has co-authored Informed Legislatures: Coping with Science in a Democracy (with Megan Jones and Lewis M. Branscomb, University Press of America, 1996), and he has co-edited The Fragile Contract: University Science and the Federal Government (with Ken Keniston, MIT Press, 1994) and Shaping Science and Technology Policy: The Next Generation of Research (with CSPO co-director Daniel Sarewitz, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). Guston is the series editor of CNS's Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society (Springer) with annual volumes beginning in 2008, and he is the general editor of the forthcoming, two-volume Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society (Sage, 2010).

Guston is the North American editor of the peer-reviewed journal Science and Public Policy, and he serves on the editorial boards of Nanoethics: The Ethics of Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale, Review of Policy Research: The Politics and Policy of Science and Technology, and VEST: Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies.

Guston has served on the National Science Foundation's review panel on Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology (2000-2002) and on the National Academy of Engineering's Steering Committee on Engineering Ethics and Society (2002). He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Kent School of Law. In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He co-chaired the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy, "Governing Emerging Technologies." He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale and a doctorate from MIT.

Multimedia

• SETI’s radio program Are We Alone, “Nano, Nano” show interview [audio]
• Briefing the US Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus [audio]
• The Rightful Place of Science? conference interview [video]

[See all of Guston's publications in the CSPO library.]