Category: STS-CH People
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Margarita Boenig-Liptsin
Margarita (Margo) Boenig-Liptsin is Assistant Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at ETH Zürich. Boenig-Liptsin is trained in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) from the Harvard STS Program and has a PhD in History of Science (Harvard University) and in Philosophy (Université Paris 1-Sorbonne). Her research examines…
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Anna Mann
Anna is a PostDoc researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich. Anna’s research focuses on emergences, enactments and reconfigurations of “good” medical care at the beginning of the 21st century. It draws on actor network theory and material semiotics and uses qualitative methods. Through detailed ethnographic…
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Jessica Pidoux
Dr. Jessica Pidoux is a digital sociologist at the University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Sociology. As a postdoctoral researcher, she conducts investigations at the intersection of the sociology of algorithms and the sociology of work, employing participatory science methods. She holds a Master’s in Sociology from the University of Lausanne…
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Paula Bialski
Paula Bialski is an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen. She is an ethnographer of digital technologies, looking at the culture of corporate software programming in particular. She recently authored the book Middle Tech: software work and the culture of ‘good enough’ (Princeton University Press:…
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Bianca Vienni-Baptista
is Group Leader of ‘Cultural Studies of Science and Technology’ and Lecturer at the Transdisciplinarity Lab of the Department of Environmental Systems Science (USYS TdLab), ETH Zürich (Switzerland). Bianca holds a Phd and Habilitation (venia legendi) from ETH Zurich in the field of anthropology of science and technology, investigating collaborative…
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Alain Müller
Alain Müller is Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology (Kulturanthropologie) at the University of Basel’s Seminar for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology. His current research is situated at the intersections of the anthropology of knowledge, Science and Technology Studies, and environmental humanities. For more information please visit his institutional profile.
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Kathrin Eitel
is a cultural anthropologist and a feminist STS scholar, currently working at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich. She is fascinated by the various ways life takes in conjunction with others – be it waste, technological megaprojects, or novel ecosystems. Of particular interest…
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Giada Danesi
I am an anthropologist and sociologist and senior researcher at the Centre for Healthcare Practices and Policies at the Department of Department of Business, Health and Social Work at SUPSI, CH. I received my PhD in social sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) of Paris…
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Aline Stehrenberger
Aline is a doctoral researcher at the school of humanities and social sciences (SHSS) at the University of St. Gallen. Taking an (online) ethnographical approach to studying people behind the apps, her PhD project aims to answer how food waste apps are imagined, developed, negotiated, and refined with the aim…
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Nicolas Baya-Laffite
Nicolas Baya Laffite is Associate Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology at the University of Geneva (UNIGE). Trained in political science and metropolitan environmental management at the University of Buenos Aires, he obtained his PhD in history of science and technology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences…