Dr. Diana Hicks

Biography

Diana Hicks is a Professor Emeritus at the Jimmy Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in metrics for science and technology policy. She is the author of the Leiden Manifesto on research metrics, published in Nature and translated into 24 languages. Hicks was awarded the 2016 Ziman Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) for her collaborative efforts to promote public interaction with science and technology. Her work has significantly influenced policymakers across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and she has advised various national research evaluation systems including those in OECD countries. Hicks has chaired the School of Public Policy for a decade and co-chaired the international Atlanta Conference on Science Innovation Policy for ten years. She is currently the editor of Research Evaluation and the executive editor for the Technology Governance and Public Policy section of Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Hicks has previously taught at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Sussex. She earned her D.Phil and M.Sc. from SPRU, University of Sussex, focusing on Science and Technology Policy. In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her distinguished contributions to the evaluation of national and international research development enterprises and her outstanding leadership in science and technology policy education.

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