Uta Wehn

Biography

Dr. Uta Wehn is Associate Professor of Water Innovation Studies and head of the Knowledge & Innovation Studies Development group at IHE Delft, the Netherlands. She is a social scientist from the field of science, technology & innovation studies, with a background in ICT. Her work at the intersection of data and knowledge co-creation, digital innovations and water and environment focuses on the social dynamics of innovation and how to harness digital transformations for participatory environmental governance and sustainable development. Her current Citizen Science projects include case studies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, using Living Labs principles and tailoring user-centred and multi-stakeholder co-design methods to citizen science. She is also Adlerbert Visiting Professor of Marine Citizen Science for Sustainable Development at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.