Portfolio

Oct 10, 2024 ∞

Publication formats: Maybe you need do decide what side you're on, GenAI or Zine?

As part of digital infrastructure research, we are exploring alternative forms to publish academic work. Currently and in different iterations: zines (from “magazine”). It really makes a difference to think about knowledge production in an open, playful format. Just make things.

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Nov 27, 2023 ∞

Thinking like a waste scholar

Waste is on top of my mind, although not always centre stage in every research project.

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Nov 20, 2022 ∞

Engagement

Since the end of 2023, I am part of the editorial board of the EASST Review. I was a board member of stsing and contact person of their tech & infrastructure working group, from 2020 until 2023.

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Nov 20, 2022 ∞

Interspecies Care

More-than-human research in the aftermath of the Corona crisis, and more.

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Jan 20, 2022 ∞

Current Project

My main research theme right now is data centres: their local arrangement, material legacies, building procedures, and global production networks enabling its operation. I have been living and working in Asia-Pacific for a longer period to follow the actors. The study is conducted in the collaborative research centre 1567 Virtual Life Worlds, in subproject A02 led by Estrid Sørensen.

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Jan 20, 2022 ∞

Train Infrastructures

Based on my (now concluded) work in the collaborative research centre in Siegen I contribute to the discussion on mobility transitions.

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Jan 1, 2022 ∞

Network valuation studies

I am part of the research group On the path to the valuation society? funded by the German Research Foundation. With Emma Greeson and Olli Pyyhtinen, I’ve co-edited a Special Issue on ‘Dis/Assembling Value’.

We’ve been meeting for several years and are preparing a handbook on Valuation and Society (Routledge).

Jan 1, 2022 ∞

Ethnography

My central methodological competence: participant observation, immersion, following materials, expert knowledge and situated practices.

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Jan 1, 2022 ∞

Coding

More hands-on skills: From Data Science to Graph Analysis.

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Nov 20, 2021 ∞

E-Waste Research

Global and interdisciplinary research on e-waste: ethnographic studies in Germany, India, and across social media platforms.

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