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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.
As President of EASST, I would want to encourage experimenting with conference formats that reduce climate impact while fostering personal scholarly connections between participants. I also want to explore with the community how EASST can provide more support for sometimes isolated STS PhD students as well as for national STS associations.
Currently I work as professor of Transdisciplinary STS at the Athena Institute at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, having studied and worked at STS departments in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. Being on the organising committees of the EASST-4S 2008 Rotterdam meeting and serving as chair of EASST-4S 2024 in Amsterdam I could appreciate the wonderfully diverse and rich scholarship in the field. Over the last decade I have been full-heartedly involved in setting up the STS Making & Doing program, which I could help develop while serving as a council member of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). I would like to continue to find ways to make Making & Doing scholarship more visible.
