I am a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford. Broadly based in STS, ethnography and public policy, my research revolves around issues of governance and accountability in digitally networked environments—the dynamics at work, the values at stake, the design options at hand. My doctoral work looks at the practical politics of novel review, rating and ranking schemes in healthcare and search engine optimization (SEO).
I study with Steve Woolgar and the Oxford STS group. I also work with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (public policy), Christian Pentzold (communications studies), Theo Röhle (media studies), Ian Brown (computer science and policy) and Fadhila Mazanderani (sociology of health).
Previously, I was a McCloy Fellow at Harvard University, a Non-resident Fellow at the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, a Junior Researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research, and a member of multidisciplinary research teams at Harvard, Oxford, St. Gallen, Hamburg and the OECD. I have a Master in Public Administration (MPA) specializing in science, technology and information policy from Harvard University and a First State Exam in Law (“sehr gut”) from the University of Hamburg.
