Current

# Assistant Professor (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)

A dominant theme in Sarah's work is the role of representations in the production of knowledge. Until recently she mainly zoomed in on visual representations – for instance, images of the brain generated by a scanner - but she also became interested in citations as representations of scholarly communication. Sarah's research in Leiden focuses on the growing use of performance indicators and assessment procedures in scientific and scholarly research.

Previous

# 2009-2011 Post-doctoral researcher (VKS – KNAW, Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences)

Network Realism. Making Knowledge from Images in Digital Infrastructures.

# 2004-2009 PhD Candidate (University of Groningen)

Regarding the Brain. Practices of Objectivity in Cerebral Imaging. 17th Century-Present

# 2007-2009 Lecturer Psychology, Coordinator First year (University of Groningen)

# 2003 Lecturer Psychology (University of Groningen)

# 2000-2004 Freelance journalist and researcher

Fellowships

# 2010 Visiting research fellow University of California, San Diego

# 2007 Pre-doctoral research fellow Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Advisory committee memberships

# International project proposal Encounters With Science. Uppsala University, Sweden, 8-10 Sept. 2011.

# Picturing the Brain, Perspectives on Neuroimaging. Project managed by dr. Aud Sissel Hoel. Funded by Research Council Norway.

# ORA project NESSHI- The Neuroturn in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Impact of neuroscience on economics, marketing, and philosophy

Professional memberships

#  Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)

# European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

# Dutch National research school for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC)

Travel grants, awards

# Travel grant NWO for stay at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin)

# Travel grant National Science Foundation (NSF) for conference HSS Washington D.C.

# Best Poster Award Heymans Symposium, 2004

Management experience

# 2007 – 2009 Coordinator 1st year, Member teaching committee BA Psychology

# 2007 – 2008 PhD student representative steering group Wellbeing PhD and bursary students, Faculty GMW

# 2006- 2007 Chair PhD Committee Psychology

# 2006 Co-organizer Heymans Symposium + chair symposium

Diplomas

# 2010 PhD Faculty of Behavioral & Social Sciences (University of Groningen) With honors

# 2008 BKO Basiskwalificatie docent (Universitair Onderwijs Centrum RuG)

# 2006 Trajectory Graduate School WTMC

# 2005, 2006 NWO Talent Day

# 2005 Publishing in English, Language Center RuG

# 2004 Teaching skills for PhD Students, UOCG

# 2002 Doctoral degree Psychology, (University of Groningen)