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General Information

Contact Information

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Interests

  • A planetary lens: Material politics of socio-ecologic transitions and sustainability measures
  • Science & Technology Studies and relational approaches like actor-network theory
  • Economic sociology, global value chains
  • Waste, energy, and valuation studies
  • Ethnography, digital methods

Education and Experience

Education

  • 2021: Digital Methods Summer School 2021, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2014-2019: PhD, Dr. phil (summa cum laude) in Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany
  • 2013: German Academic Exchange Service, Summer School, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
  • 2012: Semester abroad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New-Delhi, India
  • 2011-2013: Master of Arts, Sociology
  • 2008-2011: Bachelor of Arts, Sociology (major) and Intercultural Business Communication (minor), Friedrich‐Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
  • 2007: A levels, Secondary school, Hamm (Westf.), Germany

Research Experience

  • 2026: Interim Professor, Anthropology of Knowledge, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
  • 01&02/2025: Visiting Scholar, Fulbright University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • 2022-2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Liveworlds, Ruhr-University Bochum, affiliated with the RUSTlab, Bochum, Germany
  • 2021-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Collaborative Research Centre Media of Cooperation, affiliated with the Chair of Sociology (especially Workplace Studies), Siegen University, Siegen, Germany
  • 2019-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher and Coordinator, Chair of Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge, Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • 2019: Visiting Scholar, Department of Work, Organization and Technology (Management School)/Centre for Science Studies (Sociology), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
  • 2013-2019: Pre-doc, research and teaching assistant, research group coordinator, Chair of Social Theory, Department of Social Science, Kassel University, Kassel, Germany
  • 2009-2013: Student assistant and tutor, Institute for Sociology, Friedrich‐Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

List of Publications

Monographs

  • Abels, Sandra/Çelik, Leman/Laser, Stefan/SĂžrensen, Estrid (2026): Staying with the planet. The university that tried to reckon with ecological reality, challenged excessive data infrastructures, and nurtured a few alternatives not planned for. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Groth, Karla/Laser, Stefan/Sarther, Isabelle/Schirrmacher, Jennifer (2022): ArtenĂŒbergreifende FĂŒrsorge? Die Corona-Pandemie und das Mensch-Tier-VerhĂ€ltnis. Reihe: Human-Animal Studies. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Laser, Stefan (2020): Hightech am Ende. Über das globale Recycling von Elektroschrott und die Entstehung neuer Werte. Reihe: Soziologie des Wertens und Bewertens. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Special Issues

  • Çelik, Leman/Laser, Stefan/SĂžrensen, Estrid (forthcoming, 2025): Across the layers: How data infrastructures link knowledge practices and planetary matter. Science & Technology Studies.
  • Greeson, Emma/Stefan Laser/Olli Pyyhtinen (2020): Dis/assembling value. Lessons from waste valuation practices. Valuation Studies 7(2).
  • Schlitz, Nicolas/Stefan Laser (2019): Waste and globalized inequalities. Austrian Journal of Development Studies 35(2-3).

Edited Volumes

  • Co-Editor, Waste-in-Motion Collective (forthcoming, 2026): Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Fehrenbacher, Jens/Flugel, Kristin/JĂŒrgens, Jane/Laser, Stefan/Lorenz, Marco/Pittroff, Fabian, Early Career Forum (2024): Vokabular der VirtualitĂ€t. Ein situiertes Lexikon der VirtualitĂ€t. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Hogan, MĂ©l/Stefan Laser/Edward Ongweso (forthcoming, 2026): Predictions. From speculative ethnography to apocalyptic testimony. Manchester: Mattering Press.
  • Krenn, Karoline/Kropf, Jonathan/Ochs, Carsten (2024): Dynamiken digitaler Bewertung. Über GestaltungsspielrĂ€ume in Infrastrukturen – von KI bis Queering [The dynamics of digital evaluation. On creative freedom in infrastructures – from AI to queering]. Wiesbaden: Springer-VS.
  • Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (2018): Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. FĂŒr eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Article with Double-blind Peer-Review

  • Laser, Stefan (R&R): Encountering the semiconductor industry: Conferences and value chains in motion, from Taiwan to Vietnam. Journal of Cultural Economy.
  • Laser, Stefan (under Review): Stranded high-tech infrastructure. On Intel’s non-Investment in Magdeburg, pausing, discarding, and starting again. Engaging Science, Technology and Society.
  • Laser, Stefan (under Review): Mapping Vietnam’s semiconductor leapfrogging desires, or: the chip rush as a matter of concern. East Asian Science, Technology & Society.
  • SĂžrensen, Estrid/Laser, Stefan/ Çelik, Leman (forthcoming): Planetary knowledge (part 1): Shifting attention from science as socio-material to science as planetary. Science & Technology Studies.
  • SĂžrensen, Estrid/Laser, Stefan/ Çelik, Leman (under Review): Planetary knowledge (part 2): Research analytics to engage science as planetary. Science & Technology Studies.
  • Wagenknecht, Susann/Kocksch, Laura/Laser, Stefan/Kuehnen, Ann-Kristin (2024): Valuing data – attaching online data to stakes, selves, and other data. Valuation Studies 8(2). https://valuationstudies.liu.se/article/view/3598
  • Laser, Stefan (2022): Verausgabung auf „Strava“ und mit „Powermeter“: ĂŒber technologisch vermittelte Selbstbewertung beim Radsport und eine energiesoziologische Perspektive. Österreichische Zeitschrift fĂŒr Soziologie 47(4): 319-332.
  • Laser, Stefan (2022): Wert mit Abfall befragen. Eine soziomaterielle Perspektive auf die Erzeugung von Wert mit Einsichten aus ethnographischer Forschung zu Elektroschrott. Zeitschrift fĂŒr Soziologie 51(2): 1-18.
  • Gertenbach, Lars/Lamla, Jörn/Laser, Stefan (2021): Eating Ourselves out of Industrial Excess? Degrowth, Multi-Species Conviviality and the Micro-Politics of Cultured Meat. Anthropological Theory 21 (3): 386–408.
  • Laser, Stefan/SĂžrensen, Estrid (2021): Re‐imagining river restoration. Temporalities, landscapes and values of the Emscher set in a post‐mining environment. Berliner BlĂ€tter 84(2): 65‐85.
  • Laser, Stefan/Alison Stowell (2020): Thinking like Apple’s recycling robots: Towards the activation of responsibility in a postenvironmentalist world. Ephemera 20(3): 163–194.
  • Laser, Stefan (2020): Sorting, shredding and smelting scrap: The production of value by deformation at a high‐tech recycler of electronic waste. Valuation Studies 7(2): 221‐255.
  • Laser, Stefan/Schlitz, Nicolas (2019): Facing frictions: Waste and globalized inequalities. Austrian Journal of Development Studies 35(2‐3): 5‐32.
  • Lamla, Jörn/Laser, Stefan (2016): Nachhaltiger Konsum im transnationalen Wertschöpfungskollektiv. Versammlungsdynamiken in der Politischen Ökonomie des Elektroschrotts. Berliner Journal of Sociology 26(2): 249‐271.
  • Laser, Stefan (2016): Why is it so hard to engage with practices of the informal sector? Experimental insights from the Indian e‐waste‐collective. Cultural Studies Review 22(1): 168‐195.

Article without Double-blind Peer Review and Book Chapters

  • Laser, Stefan/Schönbauer, Sarah/Gumpert, Tobias (in print): MĂŒll in Bewegung, FĂŒrsorge im Wandel: FĂŒrsorgliche Perspektiven auf flĂŒchtige Materialien. In: Waste-in-Motion Kollektiv (Hrsg.) Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Laser, Stefan (in print): KurzbeitrĂ€ge [Sticky Notes]: Untergrund, Ruins [Underground, Ruins]. In: Waste-in-Motion Kollektiv (Hrsg.) Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Gumpert, Tobias/Laser, Stefan (in print): Residuale Verantwortung – Abfall, Ungleichheit und das Politische des Entsorgens [Residual responsibility – Waste, inequality, and the political of disposal]. In: Waste-in-Motion Kollektiv (Hrsg.): Wie Abfall die Welt bewegt [How waste moves the planet]. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Laser, Stefan (2026). Generative Prognosen in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften [Generative predictions in the social sciences and humanities]. In P. Breil & F. Sprenger (Ed.), Virtuelle UniversitĂ€t [Virtual University], 483–492. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Karoline/Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan/Ochs, Carsten (2025): Dynamiken digitaler Bewertung [Dynamics of digital valuation]. In: Krenn, Karoline/Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan/Ochs, Carsten (2024): Dynamiken digitaler Bewertung. Über GestaltungsspielrĂ€ume in Infrastrukturen – von KI bis Queering [The dynamics of digital evaluation. On creative freedom in infrastructures – from AI to queering], 1–30. Wiesbaden: Springer-VS
  • Multiple entries in the speculative dictionary: Fehrenbacher, Jens/Flugel, Kristin/JĂŒrgens, Jane/Laser, Stefan/Lorenz, Marco/Pittroff, Fabian (Hrsg., 2024): Vokabular der VirtualitĂ€t. Ein situiertes Lexikon der VirtualitĂ€t. Bielefeld: transcript. (AnfĂ€nge, DigitalitĂ€t, Editorial, Großinvestition, Hypervisor, Meta, QualitĂ€ten)
  • Laser, Stefan (2024): Rethinking value through waste. About devaluation and society. In: KrĂŒger, Anne K./Peetz, Thorsten/SchĂ€fer, Hilmar: The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society, 117–226. London/New York: Routledge.
  • Laser, Stefan/Pasek, Anne/SĂžrensen, Estrid/Hogan, MĂ©l/Ojala, Mace/Fehrenbacher, Jens/Gregor Hepach, Maximilian/Çelik, Leman/Ravi Kumar, Koushik (2023): The environmental footprint of social media hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon. EASST Review 41(3).
  • SĂžrensen, Estrid/Laser, Stefan (2023): Towards artful sustainable Integration of IT infrastructures: A report from the construction of a university data centre. In: Jankowski, Patricia/Höfner, Anja/Hoffmann, Marja Lena/Rohde, Friederike/Rehak, Rainer/Graf, Johanna: Shaping digital transformation for a sustainable society: Contributions from Bits & BĂ€ume, 87–90. Berlin: Technische UniversitĂ€t Berlin.
  • Laser, Stefan (2022): Verschwendung handhaben. Über Energie, Ressourceneinsatz und infrastrukturelles Erfahrungswissen in der Recycling- und Schienenindustrie. In: Barth, Thomas/Jaeger-Erben, Melanie/Jochum, Georg/Lorenz, Stephan (Hrsg.). Nachhaltig(e) Werte schaffen? Arbeit und Technik in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation, 156-179. Weinheim: Beltz/Juventa.
  • Laser, Stefan/Nicolas Schlitz (2021): Abfall in und jenseits von GĂŒterketten: Ungleichheiten und unterschĂ€tzte Materialien. In: Fischer, Karin/Reiner, Christian/Staritz, Cornelia (Hrsg.), Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung: Arbeit, Kapital, Konsum, Natur, 284–288. Wien: Mandelbaum Verlag.
  • Laser, Stefan (2021): Mit modularen Smartphones MĂŒll vermeiden, und andere MissverstĂ€ndnisse. Über die Intervention in eine produktorientierte Bewegung und die methodologischen FrĂŒchte des Scheiterns. In: Herberg, Jeremias/StĂ€mmler, Johannes (Hrsg.). Wissenschaft im Strukturwandel, 337–358. MĂŒnchen: Oekom.
  • Frisch, Thomas/Laser, Stefan/MatthĂ€us, Sandra/Schendzielorz, Cornelia (2021): It’s worth the trouble. On valuation studies and climate change. economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter 22(1): 10‐14.
  • Laser, Stefan/Alison Stowell (2020): Apple’s recycling robot „Liam“ and the global recycling economy of e‐waste. What ‘The Guardian’ does, and what he misses out on. In: Johansson, Nils/Ek, Richard (Hrsg.). Perspectives on waste from the social sciences and humanities: Opening the bin, 265–279. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.
  • Greeson, Emma/Laser, Stefan/Pyyhtinen, Olli (2020): Introduction: Dis/assembling value. Lessons from waste valuation practices. Valuation Studies 7(2): 151‐166.
  • Laser, Stefan (2018): Elektroschrott und die Abwertung von Reparaturpraktiken: Eine soziologische Erkundung des Recyclings von ElektronikgerĂ€ten in Indien und Deutschland. In: Stefan Krebs, Gabriele Schabacher, Heike Weber (Hrsg.). Kulturen des Reparierens, 85‐103. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (2018): Eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen. In: Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (Hrsg.). Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. FĂŒr eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen, 1‐16. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (2018): FĂŒr eine reflexive Vergleichspraxis in der Bewertungssoziologie. Pinterest und WhatsApp als Beispiel. In: Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (Hrsg.). Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. FĂŒr eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen, 19‐40. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Laser, Stefan/Ochs, Carsten (2018): Kontroversen bewertbar machen. Über die Methode des „Mapping of Controversies. In: Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (Hrsg.). Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. FĂŒr eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen, 97‐125. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Lamla, Jörn/Laser, Stefan (2018): Verbraucherschutz. In: Backhaus‐Maul H., Kunze M., NĂ€hrlich S. (Hrsg.). Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen in Deutschland, 285‐299. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Laser, Stefan (2016): A phone worth keeping for the next 6 billion? Exploring the creation of a modular smartphone made by Google. In: Christiane Lewe, Tim Orthold, Nicolas Oxen (Hrsg). MĂŒll: InterdisziplinĂ€re BeitrĂ€ge auf das Übrig-Gebliebene, 201‐226. Bielefeld: transcript.
  • Laser, Stefan/Lamla, Jörn (2015): Demokratischer Experimentalismus in transnationalen Wertschöpfungskollektiven. Über einige Herausforderungen des ethischen Konsums und den Fall Elektroschrott. In: Stephan Lessenich (Hrsg.). Routinen der Krise – Krise der Routinen. Verhandlungen des 37. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft fĂŒr Soziologie in Trier 2014. Budrich.

Reviews

  • Laser, Stefan (2024): Eine innige Beziehung. Rezension zu ‚MĂŒll. Eine schmutzige Geschichte der Menschheit‘ von Roman Köster, Soziopolis.
  • Laser, Stefan (2021): Review‐Essay: Building bridges: About the reflection work and consequences of STS method practices in three current publications. Science and Technology Studies 34(2): 138–143.
  • Laser, Stefan (2019): Who carries the weight of digital technologies? What is its weight anyway? Review‐Essay of “Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste”, by Josh Lepawsky (MIT Press), Austrian Journal of Development Studies 35(2‐3): 217‐227.

Interviews

  • Laser, Stefan, und Carsten Ochs (2025): ‘Ich glaube, dass die Verunsicherung von Verbrauchern durch immer perfekter werdende KI-Produkte weiter zunehmen wird, und da mĂŒssen wir etwas gegensetzen!’ Interview: Im GesprĂ€ch mit dem VerbraucherschĂŒtzer Oliver Havlat von der Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen [‘I believe that consumer uncertainty will continue to grow as AI products become increasingly sophisticated, and we need to do something about it!’ Interview: In conversation with consumer advocate Oliver Havlat from the North Rhine-Westphalia Consumer Organisation]. In: Krenn, Karoline/Kropf, Jonathan/Ochs, Carsten (2024): Dynamiken digitaler Bewertung. Über GestaltungsspielrĂ€ume in Infrastrukturen – von KI bis Queering [The dynamics of digital evaluation. On creative freedom in infrastructures – from AI to queering]. Wiesbaden: Springer-VS.
  • Hanika, Tom/Kibanov, Mark/Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (2018): ‘Ich denke, es ist wichtig zu verstehen, warum die Netzwerkanalyse jetzt populĂ€r und besonders interessant fĂŒr die Forschung geworden ist.’ Im GesprĂ€ch mit einem Mathematiker und einem Informatiker [‘I think it is important to understand why network analysis has become popular and particularly interesting for research now.’ In conversation with a mathematician and a computer scientist]. In: Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan (Eds.), Digitale Bewertungspraktiken. FĂŒr eine Bewertungssoziologie des Digitalen. [Digital valuation practices. Towards a sociology of valuation of the digital] Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 165‐188.
  • Laser, Stefan/Eitel, Kathrin/Schlitz, Nicolas (2019): Discard Studies: Doing Science Differently, Interview with Max Liboiron, Austrian Journal of Development Studies 35(2‐3): 167‐196.

Reports and Working Paper

  • Ashall, Vanessa/Held, Tobias/Laser, Stefan/Mewes, Julie Sascia/Ojala, Mace/Schulte-Roemer, Nona/Smith, Robert/Tutton, Richard/Zambach, Sine (2022): Fieldnotes on FlyingLess Conferencing. EASST Review 41(2). Read online
  • Laser, Stefan (2022): Obsoleszenz statt Transformation im Schienenverkehr: Über die Rolle der Bahn in der ökologischen -Verkehrswende, eine GrĂŒne Welle auf der Schiene und Hoffnungen in eine Kupplungsrevolution. Working Paper Series Collaborative Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation. Siegen. https://doi.org/10.25819/UBSI/10201.
  • Laser, Stefan/Rienow, Andreas/Dedring, Torben (2021): Ruhr Valley and Delhi. Megacity Air Pollution in Germany and India, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography. Read online
  • Laser, Stefan/Chen,Xinyue/Lompe, Maria/Ozkula, Suay Melisa/SĂžrensen, Estrid/Teigeler, Lena /Vespa, Mariangela/Zhao, Tianshi. (2021): Greenwashing, in_authenticity and protest: Following the dynamics and relations of an ambiguous term on Twitter and the Web, Designers: Matteo Bettini, Valentina Pallacci, Fabiola Papini, MarĂŹa Paula Vargas Triana, Digital Methods Initiative Wiki.
  • Lippert, Ingmar/Mewes, Julie S./Helm, Paula/Laser, Stefan/SĂžrensen, Estrid/Kocksch, Laura (2021): stsing: Doing STS In, Through and Beyond the German Academic System. SocArXiv. Read online
  • Bogusz, Tanja/BĂŒchner, Stefanie/DĂĄnyi, Endre/Klein, Anja/Laser, Stefan/SchlĂŒnder, Martina/SĂžrensen, Estrid. Workshop report: #stsing – but how? An open workshop on possible organization forms of STS‐in‐Germany. Online-Blog stsing.

Selected Presentations and Conference Activity

  1. Co-Organizer: German STS conference “Before Ruins”, stsing e.V., Ruhr-University Bochum
  2. SĂžrensen, Estrid/Mauro-Flude, Nancy/Laser, Stefan/Jackson, Steve: Planetary data infrastructures, EASST/4S Conference, Amsterdam, 18.07.2024.
  3. Laser, Stefan: Chip Rush? Semiconductors in Vietnam as a Public Controversy, Workshop, Hanoi, 05.03.2024.
  4. Laser, Stefan: “Rescaling the Planet Through Chips”, paper presented at the Taiwan Science and Technology Studies Annual Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 02.09.2023.
  5. Laser, Stefan/Schönbauer, Sarah: “Waste in Circulation”, panel organized, Aachen, STS-Hub.de, 15.03.2023.
  6. Bogusz, Tanja/Laser, Stefan: “Circulating Experimental Knowledge: On Co-laborative stsing in the Anthropocene”, panel organized, Aachen, STS-Hub.de, 17.03.2023.
  7. Çelik, Leman/Laser, Stefan/SĂžrensen, Estrid: “Across the Layers: Scientific Knowledge Production, Planetary Resources, and Data Centres”, lecture series, Ruhr-University Bochum, winter 2022/23.
  8. Kropf, Jonathan/Laser, Stefan/Ochs, Carsten: “Shaping platforms and reflecting value conflicts in socio-digital valuation infrastructures”, workshop organized, Kassel, 19./20.05.2022
  9. Laser, Stefan: “Climate on and off the railways. The railway in the ecological transformation”, paper presented during the workshop “Organisation and Valuation of Sustainability”, Hamburg, 5.11.2021
  10. Laser, Stefan: “Waste: On the question of value”, paper presented during the workshop “The ecological question”, organized by the section of Social Theory of the German Society of Sociology, Frankfurt am Main, 05.06.2020
  11. Laser, Stefan: “Cycling on and through digital platforms, or: What happens when data centres shape the mobility of athletes?“, paper presented, 5th Energy and Society conference, Trento, 11.02.2021.
  12. Kocksch, Laura/Laser, Stefan/Pittroff, Fabian/Roschka, Jakob/Sþrensen, Estrid: “Inquiring the digital interstice through a data sprint: Ethnographic research where front and back end meet“, workshop organized, conference “New Materialist Informatics“, Kassel, 22.03.2021.
  13. Laser, Stefan: “Charging the bin: Bringing energy in“, paper presented, conference “Re‐Opening the Bin“, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11.06.2021.
  14. Kocksch, Laura/Laser, Stefan/Sþrensen, Estrid: “Decentring datacentres: their politics, energy, waste and epistemics“, panel organized during the EASST/4S conference: Locating and Timing Matters, Prague, Czech Republic, 19.08.2020.
  15. Laser, Stefan: “Restoring a broken landscape? A ‘pioneering model’ from the Ruhr Valley, a former coal mining hub“, paper presented during the EASST/4S conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 20.08.2020.
  16. Laser, Stefan: “On high‐tech recycling. Some lessons from a global ethnography of electronic waste“, paper presented at the Centre for Science Studies, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 27.03.2019.
  17. Laser, Stefan: “Waste and globalized inequalities. The case of e‐waste“, paper presented at the Sustainability Research Network, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 26.03.2019.
  18. Laser, Stefan/Stowell, Alison: “Apple’s recycling robot “Liam” and the global recycling economy of e‐waste“, with Alison Stowell, paper presented, conference “Opening the Bin“, Helsingborg, Lund, Sweden, 29.04.2017.
  19. Laser, Stefan: “Processing electronic waste, re‐evaluating limits. Ethnographic insights from a high‐tech recycling company“, paper presented during the 4S/EASST conference “Science and technology by other means“, Barcelona, Spain, 01.09.2016.
  20. Laser, Stefan: “Evaluating electronic waste on a daily basis. Ethnographic insights from a large‐scale waste recycler and processor“, paper presented, conference “Ethnography and qualitative research“, Bergamo, 09.06.2016.
  21. Laser, Stefan: “Who Benefits from Sustainability? Analysing the Indian Politics of Electronic Waste in a Transnational Setting“, paper presented, ASNEL/GNEL and GASt conference “Postcolonial Justice“, Potsdam and Berlin, 30.05.2014.

Memberships

  • Co-Editor of the journal EASST Review
  • Elected Board Member 2021-23: stsing e.V. Doing STS in and through Germany. Access Point of the working group “Tech and Infrastructure“
  • Member of the DFG Research Network: “Valuation Studies: On the Way to the Evaluation Society?”
  • Co-organisation of a DFG research network. “Waste in motion: Mobilisations of waste and pollutants as a sociomaterial configurations”
  • Member of the RUSTlab in Bochum
  • Member of GWTF – Society for Science and Technology Research
  • Member of the German Society for Sociology and the sections: Economic Sociology, Social Theory
  • Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Member of the “Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography” (PECE), with contributions to “The Astma Files” and “Disaster STS”

Programming and Software Skills:

  • Python: Data Science
  • R: Data Science
  • Gephi: Networks
  • MaxQDA (AND Markdown): Coding
  • Markdown: Memos via Obsidian