Barbara Prainsack is Reader (Associate Professor) in the interdisciplinary Medicine, Science & Society programme at King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s (2007) she taught comparative politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she was also a senior research associate at the Life Science Governance Research Platform. Barbara has published widely on regulatory, societal, and ethical dimensions of the biosciences, and in particular of DNA profiling and databasing for medical and forensic purposes. Her work has featured in media such as BBC news, ABC National News Australia, Die Zeit, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, and is regularly cited in policy documents. Together with Richard Hindmarsh at Griffith University in Nathan, Australia, Barbara edited the first comparative collection on the governance of forensic DNA databases (Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing, Cambridge University Press, 2010). A new book on forensic DNA technologies, titled Tracing Technologies: Prisoners’ Views in the Era of CSI, which she currently writes together with Helena Machado at the University of Minho, Portugal, will appear in 2012 (Ashgate). Since 2009, Barbara has been a member of the Austrian National Bioethics Commission advising the federal government in Vienna, Austria. Since spring 2011 she has been one of the three chairpersons of the Scientific Committee of the European Science Foundation’s (ESF) new Forward Look on Personalised Medicine.From 1 September 2011, Barbara will be Professor of Sociology and Politics of Bioscience at Brunel University. She will retain a connection with King’s College London via the Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, where she has been an Honorary (Senior) Research Fellow since 2005.