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The selected from more than 1500 applications for membership worldwide. She will travel to Princeton, New Jersey to join the IAS鈥檚 School of Social Sciences in the US academic year 2020-2021, which begins in September.

Traversing legal anthropology, medical sociology, and the social study of science, Associate Professor Van Wichelen鈥檚 research broadly explores how new biomedical technologies are redefining society, law and politics.

This aligns with the IAS鈥檚 theme for 2020-2021 of 鈥樷��, which 鈥渉ow states support, use, and regulate sciences, and how the sciences support the structure, function, and legitimacy of states鈥�.

While at the IAS, Associate Professor Van Wichelen will pursue her own research on the global transfer of human biological material, as well as collaborating with other visiting scholars representing a diverse range of disciplines.

Her current research, which investigates the tensions between national and global medico-legal regulatory regimes in Southeast Asian countries, has important implications for medical tourism, biosecurity, and the rapidly growing biotech field.聽

鈥淎sian countries are becoming major players in the world of bioscience, yet what is often overlooked is the role that law plays in securing or negating global health imperatives and new biomedical technologies,鈥� Associate Professor Van Wichelen said.

鈥淒uring my time at the IAS, my research will focus on Indonesia, an important strategic partner in the global governance of health and biomedical research.

鈥淢y project will benefit greatly from the intellectual interaction with scholars from different disciplines who are working with similar concepts and I hope to offer my expertise in the study of life and law in a Southeast Asian context.鈥�

Associate Professor Van Wichelen began this research as a 2018聽 and has continued this work as the research lead of the聽 FutureFix Theme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She is the Director of the University of Sydney鈥檚聽 and a member of the .

Her recent academic outputs have included the book聽, the edited volume , and published in .

, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), congratulated Associate Professor Van Wichelen saying, 鈥淢embership to the IAS is highly competitive and only awarded to聽researchers making exceptional advances in their fields. We are delighted that Sonja鈥檚聽continuing excellence in the field of biohumanities has been recognised in this way.鈥�

About the Institute for Advanced 高清福利片

The is聽one of the world鈥檚 leading centres for curiosity-driven basic research. Since 1930, it聽has served as a model for protecting and promoting independent inquiry, prompting the establishment of similar institutes around the world and underscoring the importance of academic freedom worldwide. Among its present and past faculty and members are 34 Nobel Laureates, 42 of the 60 Fields Medallists and 18 of the 20 Abel Prize Laureates, as well as many MacArthur Fellows and Wolf Prize winners. Past faculty members have included聽 and distinguished scientists and scholars such as聽 补苍诲听. 聽