Ingmar Lippert
Miquel Domenech
Niki Vermeulen, Sarah Maria Schönbauer, Vincenzo Pavone
Niki Vermeulen is senior lecturer/associate professor at Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) of the University of Edinburgh and visiting scholar at CWTS Leiden. She specialises in scientific collaboration, predominantly in the life sciences, and has developed a particular interest in the architecture of collaboration, investigating the spaces in which people are working together. Next to her academic work, […]
Andrea Núñez Casal
I am an interdisciplinary researcher of the entanglements between microbes, embodiment, and ine-qualities. Funded by ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, my PhD (Goldsmiths, 2019) was the first critical science study on the topic. It examined how human microbiome science reinstates an immunology of inclu-sion and exclusion through the ‘biologization’ of social categories of difference (race, gender and […]
Wen-Hua Kuo
Wen-Hua Kuo teaches STS and public health at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. His research concerns health governance in the transformation of East Asian states, with thematic focus on clinical trial regulation and traditional medicine. His paper “The Voice on the Bridge: Taiwan’s Regulatory Engagement with Global Pharmaceuticals” won the 4S David Edge Prize. In addition […]
Nina Amelung, Cristiano Gianolla, Joana Sousa Ribeiro, Sílvia Leiria Viegas, Bruno Magalhaes
Nina Amelung is post-doctoral researcher within the ERC-project EXCHANGE on forensic geneticists and the transnational exchange of DNA data in the EU. She has worked on public controversies, public involvement and democratic challenges of cross-border biometric data-exchange in the context of crime and migration control infrastructures. She is especially interested in the reflection on emergent […]
Ingmar Lippert, Rachel Douglas-Jones
Associate Professor Ingmar Lippert is an environmental sociologist, STS scholar and works between the Technologies in Practice research group at IT University of Copenhagen and the STS unit at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. He ethnographically studies environmental governance and its data infrastructures and is most interested in questions of ontics, ontology and their accountabilities as […]
Michelle Kasprzak, Justin Pickard
Michelle Kasprzak is an artist, writer, and curator. She is currently a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto and Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute on the subject of social innovation in extreme scenarios, supervised by Christopher Csíkszentmihályi. She has developed and delivered curriculum for the New Frontiers and Open Design […]
TopEndSTS
This piece has been collaboratively authored by current members of the TopEndSTS group, listed here in alphabetical order: Cathy Bow, Matthew Campbell, Nathan Evans, Yasunori Hayashi, Kirsty Howey, Jennifer Macdonald, Elspeth Oppermann, Emma Schuberg Barnes, Michaela Spencer, Christine Tarbett-Buckley, Simon West and Greg Williams.
Michaela Spencer
Michaela is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University in Australia. She is involved in ethnographic and policy-design research which draws on STS sensitivities, and frequently involves collaborative work with Indigenous Elders and knowledge authorities, as well as government and non-government organisations.