Current research projects

 
 
image of brain visualisation prototype showing streamlines and voxels in iridescent colors.

Screenshot of Topovox, an immersive of brain visualisation prototype.

Speculative Realities Lab

A research platform between neurosurgery, anthropology, and design at the Charité Berlin. Co-founded in 2022 with neurosurgeon Thomas Picht.

 
logo of the anthroreverb initiative

AnthroReverb

Radical open-access ethnographic publishing. Multimodal fieldwork, graphic ethnography, and experimental scholarly formats.

 

APORIA — Aporetic Intelligence

Augmented Poiesis: Relational Inquiries in the Age of AI. Studying how practitioners maintain productive puzzlement when AI promises to eliminate it.

ERC Starting Grant proposal

 
 

Sketchy Brain Modelling

Toward a speculative medical anthropology. How do neurosurgeons relate to computational brain models and algorithmic uncertainty?

DfG Emmy Noether research group proposal

 

History and Philosophy of Active Matter

Co-speaker of the project with Horst Bredekamp at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity;” exploring material agency across disciplines

 
colorful brain tractography image by neuroscientist Lucius Fekonja

Cutting

Interdisciplinary research on material practices of incision and separation, researcher and co-project leader 2021–2025, Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity.”