Frank van der Most

eHumanities Group / DANS
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Frank van der Most started his work on the ACUMEN project in the summer of 2011 at the e-Humanities Group. His research interests are research practices, the funding and organization of research, research policies and the interactions between these three. He studied Computer Science at the University of Twente and Sciences and Arts at Maastricht University. From 1997 until 2005 he was involved in research projects in the history of technology, the policy and scientific developments surrounding mad cow disease, and an evaluation of the Norwegian Research Council. During these projects he developed an interest in digital tools for qualitative and historical research, for which he developed a database application. After a failed attempt to commercially exploit these interests he returned to academia and in 2009 defended his doctoral thesis titled 'Research councils facing new science and technology : The case of nanotechnology in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland' at the University of Twente. From 2009 until 2011, he did a post-doctoral project on the use and effects of research evaluations at the CIRCLE institute for innovation studies at Lund University. Frank still has a keen interest in digital tools for research and keeps a blog on research policy and practices at http://researchaffairs.wordpress.com

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