Selen’s work contributes to the environmental STS by focusing on how environmental scientific knowledge is produced and translated into governance practices, and what kinds of infrastructures are needed to produce effective environmental knowledge for building just, multispecies liveable futures.
Since her time as an MSc student, she has served in several roles in academic communities. She was a co-founder and contributor to iris (2018-2022), the first crowd-sourced online STS Encyclopaedia in Turkish supported by STS Turkey Network and IstanbulLab, member of the Education Committee of WTMC (2019-2021), chair of the Faculty PhD Council (2021-2022), and a member of the Sustainable Society Grants selection committee as a former grantee (2022-2023).
In addition to these community roles, she has been a part of organizing committees of several events such as ‘STS from/within Turkey’ (2018), WTMC Annual Events (2019, 2021), Liveable Futures Festival (2022, 2023), and Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science Colloquium (2025).
