Before coming to the OII Ralph Schroeder was Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. He completed his Ph.D. on Max Weber at the LSE in 1988. He has written extensively about virtual reality technology and is now synthesizing this research in a book that will link how people interact in virtual environments to other types of computer-mediated communication and new media. He has also done work in the sociology of science and technoloy and recently completed a book entitled ‘Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change’. His current research is mainly on a number of projects related to e-science.
A recent CV is available here