Susan E. Cozzens recently worked as Chair of the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, leaving that position September 2003 to focus on her research activities. Her current research is on science, technology, and inequalities, and she is active internationally in developing methods for research assessment and science and technology indicators.

From 1995 through 1997, Dr. Cozzens was Director of the Office of Policy Support at the National Science Foundation. The Office coordinated policy and management initiatives for the NSF Director, primarily in peer review, strategic planning, and assessment. Dr. Cozzens has served as a consultant to the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Research Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science Foundation, Institute of Medicine, Office of Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, and on advisory committees for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Liberal Education and the Sciences, EPSCOR Evaluation), the National Academy of Sciences (NSF Decision-making for Major Awards), and the Office of Technology Assessment (Human Genome Project). She has been an invited speaker on science policy and research evaluation at the Ministry for Research and Technology in France, the Research Council of Norway, the Institute for Policy and Management in Beijing, and the Fundamental Science Foundation of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is incoming chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Cozzens has a distinguished record of publication and service in the fields of science policy and science and technology studies. She is past editor of Science, Technology, & Human Values, the journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), and has served on councils and committees for several professional societies. She is author of Social Control and Multiple Discovery in Science: The Opiate Receptor Case (SUNY Press, 1990), and co-editor of Theories of Science in Society (with Thomas F. Gieryn; Indiana University Press, 1991); The Research System in Transition (with Peter Healey, Arie Rip, and John Ziman; Kluwer, 1991); and Invisible Connections: Instruments, Institutions, and Science (with Robert Bud; SPIE, 1992). Her work has appeared in Issues in Science and Technology, Policy Studies, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Evaluation and Program Planning, Neuroscience, Social Studies of Science, Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, Scientometrics, Science and Public Policy, and Research Policy, and she has contributed chapters to a dozen books. She is co-editor of Research Evaluation.

Her Ph.D. is in sociology from Columbia University (1985) and her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University (1972, summa cum laude). She is a recipient of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Early Career Award, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Papers:

"Science and Technology Policy Professionals: Jobs, Work, Knowledge, and Values" AAAS Workshop on Science and Technology Policy Careers," May 5, 2001, Washington D.C