Portfolio
Semiconductor research in Taiwan and Vietnam
Happy to share that my article is live: enjoy some #semiconductor industry dynamics in #Vietnam and #Taiwan.
I draw on ethnographic fieldwork at industry fairs in Taipei and Hanoi to make sense of a global frenzy. Follow me on a trip.
This is just one contribution of my work in a data center research project, and it also hints at further research on the planetary entanglements of the semiconductor industry, some of which is being done in the German-Taiwanese collaboration on “Silicon Urbanism”.
Stay tuned for more contributions, a panel I co-organize at the EASST Review, a research project that’s in the pipeline. And reach out if you’re interesting in knowing things or exploring avenues for collab.
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Engagement
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 actors.
I’ve put a focus on dynamics in the semiconductor industry, expanding and making trouble in Vietnam and Taiwan.
Several articles are under review (see the CV), and about to finalise a monograph on the matter.
Check this workshop report to get a sense what this is a about.
The study is conducted in the collaborative research centre 1567 Virtual Life Worlds, in subproject A02 led by Estrid Sørensen.
Train Infrastructures
Based on my (now concluded) work in the collaborative research centre in Siegen I contribute to the discussion on mobility transitions.
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).
Ethnography
E-Waste Research
Global and interdisciplinary research on e-waste: ethnographic studies in Germany, India, and across social media platforms.