I am a full professor of Media and Culture at Linköping University in Sweden. I am also a ProFutura Scientia XVII Fellow (2023-2028) at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, and a research affiliate at the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab led by Lisa Parks at the University of California Santa Barbara.

My research explores the politics of power, worth, inequality and difference that arise when media infrastructures (such as “AI”, software, data centers, satellite ground stations, telephone networks, energy technologies like solar panels or wind turbines, etc) are being built, maintained or dismantled across different contexts.

My work is positioned at the intersection between media and communication studies, STS and cultural studies of digital technologies, and I take a lot of inspiration from various strands of anthropology. My research is currently focused on conceptualising the dismantling of communication infrastructures as a cultural and sociomaterial practice; and what does it mean for people, social arrangements, materials, and chemicals attached to them.  I have also been researching for nearly a decade the materialities and energetic relations of “the cloud” with focus on data centers and their energy politics and economies in Finland and Sweden, focusing on the cultural production of ideas of digital sustainability (see the website of the Megabytes vs Megawatts project, and download some of our games or visit our exhibition!). I am currently working on several major writing projects that bring together this research. In the meantime I am also working to develop critical perspectives and a conceptual vocabulary on the end of life of media infrastructure and the politics of dismantling networks.

My academic trajectory in brief

I completed my PhD in media and communication studies at Södertörn University in 2018 with a thesis on the making of free software for computer graphics media production, in particular the 3D animation software Blender and the 2D Synfig. My dissertation was awarded in 2019 the second prize for best PhD thesis in media and communication studies in Sweden.

Between 2018 and 2022 I was the vice-chair of the Media Industries and Cultural Production section of the European Communication and Research Education Association (ECREA), and between 2018 and 2020 I was a post-doc in Digital Innovations at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki. There I was part of the Data, Self & Society group, and my position was 50% funded by the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities. Between 2020 and summer 2025 I worked first as an assistant professor and then associate professor of media studies, and of technology and social change at the Department for Thematic Studies (TEMA-T) at Linköping University in Sweden. In the beginning of 2023 I founded and currently co-chair the Data Lab at Linköping University.

I have not always worked in academia, and it was not a self-evident path. I switched careers after having worked for 12 years professionally as software developer; as project manager at ISOC Bulgaria directing projects on free software and internet governance on the Balkans, and later as theater producer, and performance art festival fund-raiser in Sweden (a fun and successful adventure during the financial crisis). I have also a diploma as a professional tourist guide. I like trying new things and when I am not working, I am trying to grow a vegetable garden, swim, practice Nordic skating on lakes in the winter, and play board games with my children.