Uli Beisel

Prof. Dr. Uli Beisel is a Professor of Human Geography at the Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She leads the working group on Geographies of Global Inequalities, where her research bridges medical anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), and political geography.

Education & Academic Training
While the current text does not provide explicit details of degrees or prior posts, her extensive publication record since 2007 evidences a long-standing engagement with African field sites and global health debates.

Research Interests

• Medical anthropology of infectious disease control, especially malaria
• Science & technology studies of global health innovations (e.g., transgenic mosquitoes, rapid diagnostic tests)
• Multispecies geographies and the politics of coexistence with disease vectors
• Border and migration studies in West Africa, focusing on EU externalisation policies
• Critical global health governance and the bioeconomy of scientific experimentation

Her work interrogates how seemingly simple artefacts—mosquito nets, diagnostic kits, mobile labs—become entangled in complex social worlds, reshaping relations between states, scientists, and local communities.

Publication Trends
Across 50+ outputs (2010-2024) Beisel consistently combines ethnographic detail with theoretical sophistication, shifting from early studies on decentralised energy technologies in Madagascar and Ghana to a sustained focus on malaria control, genetically modified mosquitoes, and the politics of immunity and diagnostics in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania. Recent work extends this lens to Aedes-borne disease risk in Tanzanian port cities and the socio-technical imaginaries surrounding modular vaccine manufacturing in Africa.

Scientific Awards & Fellowships
No specific awards are mentioned in the provided text.

Doctoral Advising & Grants
The page congratulates Dr. Madlen Hornung for a successful 2023 PhD defence on Ethiopian livestock politics, implying Beisel supervises doctoral researchers. No detailed list of grants or advisees is supplied.

Laboratories & Research Teams
Beisel heads the Geographies of Global Inequalities group within Human Geography, Institute of Geographical Sciences, FU Berlin. Office hours are offered in hybrid mode every Monday 13:00-14:00 CET, signalling an active, ongoing engagement with students and collaborators.