Current research projects
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.
APORIA — Aporetic Intelligence
Augmented Poiesis: Relational Inquiries in the Age of AI. Studying how practitioners maintain productive puzzlement when AI promises to eliminate it.
Fundend: ERC Starting Grant 2026
Sketchy Brain Modelling in Cognitive Neurosurgery: Towards a Speculative Medical Anthropology
How do neurosurgeons relate to computational brain models and algorithmic uncertainty?
Funded: DFG Emmy Noether Research Group
AnthroReverb
Radical open-access ethnographic publishing. Multimodal fieldwork, graphic ethnography, and experimental scholarly formats.
Completed research projects
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
Cutting
Interdisciplinary research on material practices of incision and separation, researcher and co-project leader 2021–2025, Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity.”