Roger Pielke is the former director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (2001-2007). He has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES).

His current areas of interest include understanding the politicization of science, decision making under uncertainty, and policy education for scientists. He serves, among other advisory committees, on the Advisory Panel of the NSF Program on Societal Dimensions of Engineering. Before joining the University of Colorado, from 1993 to 2001 he was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Pielke holds a Ph.D. in political science, an M.A in public policy and a B.A. in mathematics, all from the University of Colorado.

• An Interview with John H. Marburger, Outgoing US President's Science Advisor (December 22, 2008)
• The Rodel of Risk Models in the Financial Crisis (October 16, 2008)
• Has Technology Assessment Kept Pace with Globalization? (July 1, 2008)
• Blinded by Assumptions (April 28, 2008)
• Technology Assesment and Globalization (December 2007)
• Late Action by Lame Ducks (September 28, 2007)
• From "Is it True?" to "So What?" (July 12, 2007)
• The Honest Broker (April 16, 2007)
• The 2006 US Midterm Elections and Science and Technology Policy (December 2006)
• Self-Segregation of Scientists by Political Predispositions (September 2006)
• How to Break Up NASA (June 29, 2006)
• Science Policy Without Science Policy Research (April 19, 2006)
• The Role of Science Studies in Science Policy (December 6, 2005)
• Making Sense of Trends in Disaster Losses (September 20, 2005)
• Science Academies as Political Advocates (July 13, 2005)