Dr. Florentine Frantz is a Senior Consultant at the Technopolis office in Vienna. With a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Technical Physics, she possesses extensive expertise in applying both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. At Technopolis, Florentine has built significant expertise in consulting on research and innovation (R&I) policy at European and national levels. Her work includes ex-post as well as developmental evaluations of funding programmes, the organisation of international peer review panels, foresight studies, assessments of EU directives, moderation of participatory workshops, and contributions to the Austrian Research and Technology Report.

Prior to joining Technopolis, Florentine worked as a researcher at the University of Vienna. In her PhD thesis, she studied how responsibility for “good” research is being imagined, distributed, and practiced in contemporary academia. Her work emphasizes the need to think responsibility for science not only as an issue of accountability and control, but to critically examine the response-ability that enables stakeholders to care for science. Therefore, she reflects on how recent changes in organising, structuring, and rewarding research might pave the way for cutting corners, rather than enabling cultures of research integrity. As a university lecturer, Florentine was involved in the development of new interactive teaching formats inviting interdisciplinary groups of students to reflect on the co-production of science and society, the (e)valuation in/of research, and the responsibility of researchers. As part of her studies, she stayed as a guest researcher in Norway (NTNU Trondheim) and the Netherlands (UMC Amsterdam).

Florentine is a German native speaker, fluent in English and Italian, with basic knowledge of Norwegian and Dutch.