 Until his retirement in 2011 he was a scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC).Since 2012 he is Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) at the University of Bergen, Norway.Silvio Funtowicz' work with Jerome R. Ravetz "Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy" started a series of reflections on the quality of science used for policy, mostly in connection with environmental and technological risks and policy-related research, introducing NUSAP a notational system for the management and communication of uncertainty in science for policy.