Luis Felipe R. Murillo

Luis Felipe R. Murillo is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. He holds affiliations with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society and the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UCLA (2015), an M.A. and B.A. in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

His research focuses on computing from an anthropological perspective, examining ethics, openness, and collaboration in technoscientific projects. Notable projects include studies on hacker collectives, open technologies at CERN, and environmental sensing in Arctic communities. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and edited volumes, including his forthcoming book Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technopolitical Futures (Stanford UP, 2025).

Dr. Murillo has secured significant grants, such as the NSF-funded Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project ($1.7M) and the Wikimedia Foundation's Open Climate Fellowship ($40K). His awards include the Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship and the Berkman Center Research Fellowship.

He advises multiple graduate students across Anthropology and interdisciplinary fields, and teaches courses like Commons: Tangible, Intangible and Otherwise and How to do Things with Data. His work bridges academia and activism through initiatives like the Journal of Open Hardware and the Global Open Science Hardware Roadmap.