Educated in Switzerland (Psychology and Economic History), and the UK (LSE, Social Psychology) and is currently Professor in Social Psychology and Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Research Fellow at the Science Museum in London. He taught internationally in France, Sweden, Switzerland, Brazil and Bulgaria, and advised national and international bodies on the public understanding of science.
Expert and lay representations of risk; social and ethical implications of biotechnology; qualitative research methods; risk and trust; science in society and society in science; beliefs and attitudes