Peter Weingart is past director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the same university. He was visiting fellow at Princeton University during 1967 and 1968 and since then visiting scholar to numerous institutions. Since 1997 member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are the sociology of science, the politics of science and history of science. He is past or current member of numerous editorial boards including Scientometrics, Science, Technology and Human Values, Minerva and the Yearbook Sociology of the Sciences. He has published widely in the sociology of science including Wissensproduktion und soziale Struktur (1976), Die sog. Geisteswissenschaften: Aussenansichten (1991) and Rasse, Blut und Gene - Geschichte der Eugenik und Rassenhygiene in Deutschland (1992). He was co-editor or co-author of numerous books i.e. Perspectives on the emergence of scientific disciplines (1976), The social production of scientific knowledge (1977), The social assessment of science: Issues and perspectives (1982), Representations of science and technology (1992) and Nature as society - Society as Nature, Metaphors (1995), and Human by Nature (1997).