Alan Irwin

Alan Irwin is a professor in the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, and in the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. He is also a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He chairs the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters committee on ‘science in society’. Alan Irwin’s academic work focuses on issues of science and technology policy, scientific governance, citizen science and science-public relations. He was a member of the working group which produced the SAPEA evidence review report on ‘Making sense of science for policy under conditions of complexity and uncertainty’ (2019).