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Professor Dr. Martina Klausner is a full-time faculty member at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, within the Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures and Arts. She holds the professorship in Digital Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, leading major interdisciplinary research initiatives including the Research Training Group Fixing Futures. Technologies of Anticipation and the Center for Critical Computational Studies.
Her educational background includes studies in European Ethnology and Cultural Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she also completed her PhD. Her research agenda centers on digital transformation processes in governance, healthcare, and urban environments, with a strong methodological focus on digital and collaborative ethnographic methods.
Her research interests span Digital Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies (STS), datafication in urban governance, AI regulation, digital health technologies, and participation rights of people with disabilities. She investigates how digital data infrastructures shape political processes, such as in the Verkehrswende (transport transition) in Frankfurt, and how AI is regulated across sectors like finance. Her work emphasizes the political dimensions of data production and the ethical, legal, and infrastructural challenges of digital technologies.
Her recent publications from 2022–2024 reveal a strong trend toward critical data studies, digital ethnographic methods, and interdisciplinary governance of AI. Articles such as 'A More-than-digital Anthropology' and 'Digitalität und Ethnografie' advocate for methodological innovation in ethnography, while others analyze AI in financial systems and data politics in urban mobility, reflecting a cohesive research trajectory at the intersection of technology, power, and participation.
She is actively involved in scientific leadership, serving as PI of major research groups and as an ERC Panel Member for Social Sciences & Humanities. She also contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles and collaborative publications.
Martina Klausner supervises doctoral researchers, including Matthias Kloft, whose dissertation builds on her research on AI regulation in finance. She has secured significant research funding, including DFG and ZEVEDI grants, and leads collaborative projects involving law, computer science, and philosophy. Her work is deeply embedded in interdisciplinary networks, including the Laboratory: Anthropology Environment | Human Relations.
She is affiliated with the Laboratory: Anthropology Environment | Human Relations, a long-standing research collective she was part of during her early career, and continues to engage in collaborative and co-laborative research models. Her current DFG-funded project on data politics in Frankfurt exemplifies her ongoing commitment to ethnographic inquiry into digital governance and civic participation.
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