science and technology studies
Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Media Technology, Södertörn University.
studying science & technology in society
I study how AI, algorithms and digital infrastructures change the way knowledge is made — and how they sort and value the world.
What happens to knowledge when algorithms and AI help produce it?
I follow how researchers and organisations build, use and come to trust AI systems — from machine learning in biomedicine to AI-generated synthetic data.
Now: with Ericka Johnson and Ylva Söderfeldt, I lead a research group on synthetic data in WASP-HS, Sweden’s national program on AI and society. The group is part of InterSynth Lab.
How do the systems we use to know the world shape what we can see?
I study the databases, sensors and surveillance systems behind public health — and what they make visible, or miss.
Now: two projects on pandemic preparedness: Blind Spots in Pandemic Preparedness and Pandemic Infrastructures.
How do classifications and values put the world in order — and what falls outside them?
I study how classification and valuation work in practice, often together: how disease surveillance sorts the known from the unknown, how data sets decide what counts as normal, and how scientific, economic and ethical values are weighed against each other.
Recent: “Detecting the unknown in a sea of knowns” (Science in Context) and “The Politics of Valuation” (Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies).