Current Editorial Team: Science & Technology Studies

At a glance:

Coordinating Editor: Salla Sariola

Editors: Franc Mali, Sarah de Rijcke, Alexandre Mallard, Martina Merz, Antti Silvast, Estrid Sørensen,  Jörg Niewöhner, Torben Elgaard Jensen

Book Review Editors: Brit Ross Winthereik & Helen Verran

Editorial Assistant: Heta Tarkkala, University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland

A brief description follows of the following members: 

Coordinating Editor: Salla Sariola

"Having worked for 15 years in the UK in departments of anthropology, sociology and bioethics, Salla is now a Finnish Academy Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at University of Helsinki, Finland. Salla is also a Senior Research at Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. She has two intertwining research interest on social studies of science, biomedicine and bioethics, and feminist technoscience, gender and sexuality. Her research foci include microbes and antimicrobial resistance; clinical trials in low income countries; as well as LGBTIQ+ and women’s rights activism around medical research. When in need of a break from academia, she heads to her allotment which she is growing according to permaculture principles."

Editor: Franc Mali

"Franc Mali is professor of sociology and epistemology of science at Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. He is currently focusing mostly in three research areas: social networks in science, R&D evaluation, social and ethical regulation of new emerging technologies. From 1999 – 2008 he was the board member of The Sociology of Science and Technology Research Network at the European Sociological Association. In seldom free times from academic obligations, he likes mountain tours.

Editor: Sarah de Rijcke

"Sarah de Rijcke is Professor in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies & Deputy Director at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden. She is group leader of the Science and Evaluation Studies (SES) research group (www.ses-leidenuniv.com). Sarah's research focuses on academic e/valuation processes, changing research cultures, knowledge infrastructures, and roles of research in and for society. Sarah is also very much into indie music.

Editor: Antti Silvast

"Dr Antti Silvast is Research Fellow in European Energy Policy and Markets at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he was postdoctoral researcher in Princeton Universit y’s Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. His PhD in Sociology is from the University of Helsinki. He has been an editor of Science & Technology Studies since 2014 and a member of the EASST since 2008. He is less known as an amateur programmer and his facility of the assembly syntax of various obsolete microprocessors."

Editor: Estrid Sørensen

"Estrid Sørensen is a Professor of cultural psychology and anthropological knowledge at the Ruhr- University in Bochum, Germany. She did her PhD in Copenhagen on the enactment of materiality and knowledge in educational practices and is currently digging into studies of large-scale international educational assessments and their displacement into non-European cultures. Estrid is also engaged in doing social studies of social psychology along with comparative work on how computer games in diff erent cultural practices come to be enacted as harmful. Estrid did her PhD in psychology and has taught in departments of sociology and social anthropology. She feels most at home in the social anthropology provinces of STS. Estrid has been a member of the EASST Council since 2008. Estrid is less known for her home made red current jam and plum butter (though she should be!)."

Editor: Martina Merz

"Martina Merz is a Professor of Science Studies at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz, Austria (since 2014) and visiting scholar at TINT Centre of Excellence in mthe Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Her recent research focuses on the local configuration of new research fields, on the scientifi c practice of modeling, simulation, and imaging, and on comparison as an epistemic strategy. She explores interdisciplinary science not only as a study object but also in action, cooperating time and again with social scientists, philosophers, historians, and, occasionally, physicists. In her leisure time she enjoys the challenge of learning languages, even those impossible to master."

Editor: Jörg Niewöhner

"Jörg Niewöhner is professor of social anthropology and human-environment relations at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and director of the Integrative Research Institute THESys (www.iri-thesys.org)."

Editor: Torben Elgaard Jensen

"Professor in Techno-anthropology and STS at Aalborg University Copenhagen. His research has engaged with many – probably too many areas of STS – but he is currently focusing two areas: The study of users and innovation, and the use of digital methods in STS. He has been the chairman of the Danish Association of STS for 9 years."

Book Review Editor: Brit Ross Winthereik & Helen Verran

Brit Ross Winthereik

Helen Verran

"Brit Winthereik and Helen Verran are joint book review editors for Science & Technology Studies. Brit is Associate Professor in the Technologies in Practice Group at IT University of Copenhagen, Helen is Professor II at the Norwegian University of the Arctic at Tromsø and Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University in Northern Australia. Being book review editors brings joy when young scholars approach us asking to review books and when books and people are successfully paired. Helen is less known for growing organic bumper garlic crop on a hillside garden. Brit is less known for being lead singer in a woman’s band that keeps striving for rhythm and punctuality."

Editorial Assistant: Heta Tarkkala

"Doctoral Student Heta Tarkkala is currently finalizing her PhD Reorganizing Biomedical Research: Biobanks as Conditions of Possibility for Biomedical Research at the University of Helsinki. She has also worked as a project researcher from 2016 to 2018 at the University of Eastern-Finland, in a project "Good(s) for Health: Personalized health services and flexible appropriation of bioinformation”. You might have seen her knitting while listening to presentations at scientific conferences.