bio
& cv

I study how knowledge is made: in science, in algorithms and AI, and in the infrastructures we use to know the world. My work is in science and technology studies (STS) and the sociology of knowledge.

Right now I am asking what AI does to knowledge. With colleagues, I study how synthetic data is made to represent the world: what it treats as normal, who falls outside it, and why anyone should trust it. I lead a WASP-HS research group on synthetic data, part of InterSynth Lab.

I also study how we prepare for the next pandemic. After Covid, new systems are being built to detect disease threats early. In two Swedish Research Council projects with Lisa Lindén, Blind Spots in Pandemic Preparedness and Pandemic Infrastructures, we follow how these systems are built, and ask what they make visible—and what they miss. Are we preparing for the wrong pandemic?

I also do infrastructural scholarship: the work that keeps a research field running. I am on the management team of WASP-HS, Sweden’s national research program on AI and society, and on the Council of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). I am an associate editor of Valuation Studies and on the associate board of Tecnoscienza, the Italian journal of science and technology studies, and at Södertörn I sit on the subject council for media technology.

Before that, I wrote about valuation and knowledge production in the biosciences, about algorithms and disease surveillance, and about how classifications include and exclude. My work has appeared in journals such as Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology & Human Values, Big Data & Society, Science as Culture, AI & Society and Valuation Studies, and I co-edited Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2015).

More on my current projects and writing.