From January 2025, seven positions of the EASST Council (ordinary members) will be vacant due to expiring terms for current representatives. Of the seven vacancies, one seat is reserved for a PhD student (needs to be a PhD candidate at the time of election), and one for an ECR (defined as someone who has no more than seven years of experience since completion of PhD at the time of the election).
In addition, the position of the President is up for election for the 2026-2029 term, serving as President-elect in 2025.
Details of the current Council can be found the Council page and the role of the president and council is described in the EASST constitution.
Twenty colleagues have put themselves forward as candidates for election. Please read their statements below. We have emailed out digital ballot papers to all paid-up members from our open-source, online voting platform, asking you to select seven candidates for Council and one for President. Deadline for voting is 20 November.
For STS as a nomadic field, with many younger and more seasoned scholars working in non-STS departments, it is essential to have spaces to come together. The EASST meetings, the journals Science & Technology Studies and EASST Review, and STS events in Europe that receive EASST support, provide crucial spaces for STS scholars from Europe and beyond to meet. These spaces are dear to me and I would like to continue to help foster them.
I am an inter/transdisciplinary scholar of reproduction who works at the intersection of science and technology studies, gender studies and global health and medicine. I work as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (30%) where I teach a course on Critical Perspectives of Global Health, Gender and Care and as a senior research fellow at Ghent University where I conduct research on transnational reproductive technologies (70%). Building on my experiences as a feminist STS researcher, lecturer and civil society organizer, I am excited to submit my candidacy as EASST council member.
I am a research professor of STS at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I earlier worked at several universities in the Netherlands and I was coordinator of the PhD programme of WTMC, the Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture. My research has covered many empirical fields such as energy, digital technologies and (bio)medical research. I have applied a range of lenses, including ethics and various perspectives on justice, responsible research and innovation, and studies of innovation systems.
I am currently Professor of Science and Technology Studies at UCL in London, where I research and teach issues relating to the role of technology in inequality and how the social effects of advanced technologies like AI and data science drive wider social and political attitudes. Previously, I have worked on a number of EU funded projects, including leading RRI-Tools, and prior to academia, ran two communications companies and worked as an adviser in the UK Government. I have also sat on the scientific committee of the PCST (public communication of science and technology) Network, experience that I believe would be valuable to EASST.
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Organisation and Management at Mälardalen University, Sweden. I have been an elected member of the EASST Council since 2021. My first mandate expires in 2024. The European STS community is steadily growing and requiring the EASST Council both continuity and change. As the current Secretary of EASST and Chair of the EASST Ethics Committee, a second mandate would allow me to put my past experience at the service of the Council and the larger STS community and move forward with the present and new Council members.
I am an Associate Professor working at the Division of Science, Technology, and Society at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. My main research interests focus on how knowledge infrastructures—such as algorithms, AI, and big data—reshape knowledge production in both society and science. I have conducted research on how algorithms for pandemic surveillance shape how we understand and manage disease. I am currently leading a project that investigates the impact of machine learning and big data on scientific knowledge production in the biosciences.
I’ve been an STS scholar since my PhD days at Lancaster University (2011-2015), and throughout my 8 years as a postdoctoral researcher. I am now a lecturer in sociology of public health in the Department of Public Health, Policy and Systems at the University of Liverpool. Overall, my research focuses on the relationship between science and medicine, including how biomedical knowledge gets translated into public health policy and practice, healthcare practice, and what this means for people’s everyday lives.
I am a trans- and inter-disciplinary scholar interested in the ways that microbes shape and are shaped by science and society. With microbes as my analytical object of study, my work engages with themes such as the social construction of knowledge, infrastructures for collaboration, and taking a critical stance towards the hype of microbial innovations. For my PhD (funded by the government of Canada, completed 2021), I studied Japanese processes of fermentation by making ferments and doing the work firsthand. My own politics about pedagogy led me to co-found the community fff|food feminism fermentation, which brings scholarly, artistic, and activist perspectives into a shared learning space.
I have just been hired as a CNRS junior professor (tenure track professorship) at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. My work lies at the intersection of STS, the sociology of quantification, and Data Studies. I am interested in the political and ethical issues surrounding the reuse of health data. I focus on empirical cases of reuse in three distinct fields: epidemiology, genomics, and AI models for health.
I am Pouya Sepehr, currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the George Simmel Centre for Urban Studies, Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University of Berlin. I am thrilled to put myself forward for the ECR position on the EASST Council, driven by a deep passion for shaping the future of STS in Europe. My academic journey has been firmly anchored in Europe, with both a PhD and MA in Science-Technology-Society from the University of Vienna, along with extensive professional and research experiences across various European contexts.
If elected as council member, I would bring both experience in organisational activities and enthusiasm for our field. For the past two years I have been a convenor of the British Sociological Association (BSA) STS study group; I have organised seminar series, conference panels, and plenary streams. I have been a regular attendee and panel organiser at STS conferences (including EASST, 4S, STS Italia) for more than 10 years. Given my interest in topics related to inequality, I would be keen to bring a focus on issues pertaining to diversity and inclusion. This interest also comes from my mentoring activities through the BSA and the Pro North East mentorship network. I believe interdisciplinarity and collegiality are essential to moving STS inquiry forward.
I would bring a multicultural background and a blend of experience from both academia and industry. Currently, I am a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, focusing on research impact metrics, technology transfer, and university innovation. I completed my PhD in Paris (LISIS-IFRIS) last year and have been lecturer at UGE and SciecesPo. My interests, in the interface between different knowledge systems, translate into different perspectives on how STS can make a significant impact beyond academia. I am passionate about fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and building community partnerships, and I hope that my experience in bridging cultures, sectors, and disciplines will contribute to EASST’s mission of engaging STS with real-world challenges.
I’m the out-going PhD representative for the council. As I begin my post-PhD academic life, I want to continue to give back to the European STS community. As the PhD representative, I tried my best to give a voice to the concerns of not only PhDs but also to Early Career Researchers (ECRs), as I felt many of the concerns of PhDs, like precarity, also affect us long after our PhD contracts are up. This inclusion culminated in the creation of a new ECR representative on the council. I hope the community building that I strive for helps ECRs form connections in their time of most uncertainty and instability.
My name is Dr. Regina Sipos, and I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich. I wrote my PhD thesis (summa cum laude) at the Technical University of Berlin about grassroots innovation in the Global South, filling a gap in STS on bottom-up, self-directed innovation by communities, often developing pathways by circumventing top-down strategies of development. My interest in this topic stems from 7 years of work at the United Nations, where I gained valuable insights into the makings of global policy.
As an early career researcher (post-doc) based in the Arctic region at the Cultural Anthropology Research Unit of the University of Oulu, Finland, and connected to STS in Turkey, becoming a member of the EASST Council would be a great opportunity to increase the voice and visibility of these traditionally underrepresented local academic constituencies.
I am a British American STS scholar, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the electrical and computer engineering department at Bucknell University. In this role, I conduct ethnographic research on how faculty and students work on socio technical problems during the engineering design process, implement practical approaches to grappling with ethical considerations in machine learning, and take up storytelling as a STS pedagogical method. My scholarship is focused on examining epistemic cultures, public pedagogies of STS, narrative construction of STS, and science fiction in technoscientific realities.
I am a postdoctoral researcher exploring digitalization phenomena on the intersection of AI, democracy, and law. In my work, which is mostly qualitative research, I bring various disciplinary perspectives together, including STS, media theory, computer science, and legal studies. Already early on in my academic career I have been introduced to the marvelous community of STS with its broad spectrum of perspectives, approaches, and practices – and call it my intellectual home ever since. I consider myself lucky to be part of such a welcoming and thriving community.
I am a doctoral candidate at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (Technical University of Munich) and a member of the Laboratory for Environment │Human Relations at the Institute of European Ethnology (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin). I research and write about how practices of investigating research misconduct intercept and intersect with practices of experimental replication in the life sciences, including bioengineering/materials science. I study controversies that erupt at this intersection, and new types of epistemic activism that exploit dynamics therein, in pursuit of research culture reforms and access at evaluative contexts.
Greetings! I am Iñaki Goñi, a Chilean/Basque doctoral candidate at the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies department, University of Edinburgh. My research focuses on technology and democratic theory, exploring how citizens engage with technology and how technologies shape participation. Before my PhD, I was a lecturer and researcher at the Universidad Católica de Chile.
I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Marburg researching the politics of Covid-19 dashboards. Previously, I have studied sociology and political science at the Universities of Marburg and Frankfurt and have been a visiting PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. I am the representative of the doctoral candidates on the board of the Collaborative Research Centre where I am employed and have participated in the organisation of our 2022 yearly conference. Previously, I have been active in student self-administration as the elected speaker of the women’s department of the Marburg Student Union.
