Patrizia Nanz
Her main areas of research are public participation and technology assessment (climate change, biotechnology, energy transition, final storage of nuclear waste), democratic theory, transnational governance and the political project of Europe).
A recipient of a scholarship awarded to gifted individuals by the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts, Patrizia Nanz studied philosophy at Munich School of Philosophy and history and literary criticism as well as philosophy at universities in Munich, Milan and Frankfurt Rhine-Main between 1984 and 1990. During this time she also trained as a journalist at the IfP Catholic Media School in Munich and undertook internships with various newspapers (including an internship with the Arts & Culture section of the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung). Her thesis on the philosophy of language was supervised by Jürgen Habermas.
From 1991 Nanz worked for several years as an editor on science and non-fiction publications for German publishing house S. Fischer Verlag and Milan-based publishers Feltrinelli. Following a sabbatical at McGill University, where she attended lectures by Charles Taylor, Nanz commenced her doctoral studies in political science at the European University Institute in Florence] in 1997. She completed her doctoral degree with a thesis, published in 2006, on the European public sphere (examiners: Philippe C. Schmitter, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Sabel, Peter Wagner).
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