Richard Appelbaum

Biography

Dr. Richard P. Appelbaum is a research professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he holds the MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global & International Studies and Sociology. He is co-PI at UCSB’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he leads an international research team engaged in a comparative study of state-led efforts to foster high-tech development, focusing on nanotechnology as a case study.