People
Coordination committee: March 2023 - March 2024
Nina Amelung (chair)
Institute of Social Science (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects/activities: Affected (non)publics: Social and political implications of transnational biometric databases in migration and crime control (AFFECT)
Silvan Pollozek (chair)
European New School of Digital Studies,
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Projects/activities: Calculating Migration
Olga Usachova (chair)
PhD student in Social Sciences, Interactions, Communications and Cultural Constructions Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) University of Padua, Italy
Projects/activities: Role and influence of digital technology in social inclusion of forced migrants in host communities
Vasileios Argyriou
Technology and Governance (TAG) group, ETH Zürich
Projects/activities: Curate
Andrea Berger
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin
Projects/activities: The re-making of Human Identification Infrastructures (HII) in the European Union after the Schengen Agreement with a focus on asylum case processing in Germany.
Lisa Marie Borrelli
Projects/activities: nccr – on the move
Mara Clemente
Projects/activities: The articulation of anti-trafficking regimes in Mediterranean Europe. Actors, discourses and representations
Arely Cruz-Santiago
Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology Department University of Exeter
Projects/activities: The (in)visibility of the border
Vasilis Galis
Technologies in Practice research group , IT University of Copenhagen
Projects/actvities: DIGINAUTS Center for Digital Welfare
Jasper van der Kist
European New School of Digital Studies, European Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder)
Projects/activities: Knowing Asylum Seekers: The chain of country of origin information; Calculating Migration
vanderKist@europa-uni.de
Vasiliki Makrygianni
Projects/activities: Digital space and social media and feminist technoscience
Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Edinburgh University / Asser Institute
Projects/activities: Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law
Emellin de Oliveira
Projects/activities: NOVA Refugee Legal Clinic
Wouter Van Rossem
Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente
Projects/activities: Processing Citizenship
Samuel Singler
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
Projects/activities: researching effects of novel border security technologies on the global criminalization of migration
Paul Trauttmansdorff
Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna
Projects/activities: Processing Citizenship: Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe
Aristotle Tympas
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Projects/activities: RISK CHANGE
Matthias Wienroth
Centre for Crime and Policing, Northumbria University
Projects/activities: Biometric technologies in security and justice contexts Valuations and validations for biometric technologies
Past Coordination comittee members
Fredy Mora-Gámez (University of Vienna, Austria)
Georgios Glouftsios (University of Trento, Italy)
Ana Visan (Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada)
Tim Schütz (University of California Irvine, US)
Sylvana Jahre (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
Contributors of STS-MigTec
The following people have contributed to STS-MigTec in one way or another, for instance by organizing network events and activities, presenting at conferences and workshops, taking up the roles of moderators and discussants, or working on joint grant proposals.
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Kinan Alajak (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Lyamuya Alphoncina (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Nina Amelung (Institute of Social Science (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jacopo Anderlini (University of Genoa, Italy)
Melina Antonakaki (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Claudia Aradau (King’s College London, UK)
Vasilis Argyriou (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Priscila Azevedo (NOVA School of Law, Portugal)
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Inken Bartels (Osnabrück University, Germany)
Burcu Baykurt (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
Rocco Bellanova (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Sara Bellezza (Free University Berlin, Germany)
Kamil Bembnista (Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany)
Sophie Bennani-Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Kelly Bescherer (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany)
Ulrike Bialas (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Tobias Blanke (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Annett Bochmann (University of Siegen, Germany)
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Lisa Marie Borrelli (Haute Ecole de Travail Social,HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland)
Anna Bredström (Linköping University, Sweden)
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Elisa Cristina De Carvalho (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Mert Cangönül (Koç University, Turkey)
Lucrezia Canzutti (King’s College London, UK)
Miriana Cascone (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Margaret Cheesman (King’s College London, UK)
Mara Clemente (ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
Simon A. Cole (University of California, Irvine)
Carys Coleman (University of Manchester, UK)
Francisco Pereira Coutinho (NOVA School of Law, Portugal)
Victoria Costa (College of William & Mary, US)
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Rachan Daimary (Central University of Gujarat, India)
Rianne Dekker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Rachael Dickson (University of Birmingham, UK)
Huub Dijstelbloem (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Salah El-Kahil (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Greg Elmer (Toronto Met University, Canada)
Susana Ferreira (University Nebrija, Spain)
Alice Fill (École Normale Supérieure Paris, France)
Anna Finiguerra (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Lupe Alberto Flores (Rice University, US)
Karolina Follis (Lancaster University, UK)
Dimitri van der Meersche (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Mirko Forti (Tuscia University, Italy)
Philippe M. Frowd (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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Vasilis Galis (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Enrico Gargiulo (University of Bologna, Italy)
Gaia Giuliani (CES - University of Coimbra)
Georgios Glouftsios (University of Trento, Italy)
Beste Isleyen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Sylvana Jahre (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Ivan Josipovic (University of Vienna, Austria)
Bernd Kasparek (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
Thea Kirsch (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
Jasper van der Kist (University of Manchester, UK)
Cosima Klatte (Hertie School Berlin, Germany)
Nina Klimburg-Witjes (University of Vienna)
Karin Krifors (Linköping University, Sweden)
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Olga Lafazani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Laura Lambert (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Romain Lanneau (Statewatch, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Yoren Lausberg (University of Bologna, Italy)
Matthias Leese (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Koen Leurs (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Romm Lewcowicz (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
Jiaqi M. Liu (University of California, San Diego, US)
Chiara Loschi, (University of Bologna, Italy)
Panagiotis Loukinas (Trilateral Research, UK)
Cagla Luleci Sula (TED University, Turkey)
Alphoncina Lyamuya (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
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Vasiliki Makrygianni (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Itamar Mann (University of Haifa, Israel)
Maria Mariana Soares de Moura (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Aaron Martin (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Bruno Oliveira Martins (Peace Research Institute Oslo – PRIO)
Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo, Norway)
Ismini Mathioudaki (University of Athens, Greece)
Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Fran Meissner (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Nedžad Mešić (Linköping University, Sweden)
Sanja Milivojevic (La Trobe University, Australia)
Fredy Mora-Gámez (University of Vienna, Austria)
Julia Mourão Permoser (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
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Pedro Neto (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Stephen J. Neville (York University, Canada)
Sabine Netz (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA School of Law, Portugal)
Lorenzo Olivieri (University of Bologna, Italy)
Arantxa Ortiz (Brandeis University, US; Leiden University, Netherlands)
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Irene Peano (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Annalisa Pelizza (University of Bologna, Italy)
Sarah Perret (King’s College London)
Janina Pescinski (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Michelle Pfeifer (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Ildikó Plájás (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Silvan Pollozek (European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder, Germany)
Marianna Poyares (New School for Social Research, US)
Samaq Rafiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Rogier van Reekum (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Fernanda R. Rosa (Virginia Tech, US)
Wouter Van Rossem (University of Twente, Netherlands; University of Bologna, Italy)
Robert Rydzewski (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland)
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Riccardo Sacco (University of Pavia, Italy)
Philipp Schäfer (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
Stephan Scheel (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany)
Willem Schinkel (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Emrys Schoemaker (LSE, UK; Cornell Tech, US)
Lucia Sestokas (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Philipp Seuferling (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Samuel Singler (University of Oxford, UK)
Eric Sodgrass (Linköping University, Sweden)
Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez (Texas A&M International University, US)
Luděk Stavinoha (University of East Anglia, UK)
Laura Stielike (Osnabrück University, Germany)
Gavin Sullivan (Edinburgh Law School, UK)
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Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo (LUISS University, Italy)
Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Johanna Thomé (University of Applied Science Fulda, Germany)
Nina Dewi Toft Djanegara (Stanford University, US)
Paul Trauttmansdorff (University of Bologna, Italy)
Daniela Trucco (University of Côte d’Azur, France)
Mirjam Twigt (University of Oslo, Norway)
Aristotle Tympas (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
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Maria Ullrich (University of Bonn, Germany)
Olga Usachova (University of Padua, Italy)
Ana Valdivia (King’s College London, UK)
Jaime Vargas (University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Niovi Vavoula (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Eline Wærp (Malmö University, Sweden)
Mirjam Wajsberg (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Frendehl Sipaco Warner (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Keren Weitzberg (University College London, UK)
Matthias Wienroth (Northumbria University, UK)
Anne‐Kathrin Will (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
Lieke Wissink (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)