Ina Wagner (born 1946) is an

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and

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. She is an emeritus professor of

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(

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), where she was active from 1987 until 2011. Wagner completed a

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at the

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in 1972. In 1979 she received her

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from the

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, and in 1998 completed a second habilitation in "multidisciplinary design and

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" in Vienna. In 1987 she became the TU Wien's second ever female professor and the first to be appointed from outside the university, and led the ''Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology'' until her retirement in 2011. In 2011 Wagner received the Gabriele Possanner State Prize, an award given by the Austrian science ministry for

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, and the city of

's Women's Award. She is a current member of the Austrian Chancellery's

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commission and a former member of the ''European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies''.

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External links

Ina Wagner's personal website
Austrian women scientists Academic staff of TU Wien 1946 births Living people University of Klagenfurt alumni University of Vienna alumni {{sociologist-stub