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Susanne Bauer is a Professor at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (Tik) at the University of Oslo. Her academic career spans multiple disciplines including Science and Technology Studies (STS), sociology, history and anthropology of science. She has maintained longstanding research collaborations with scientists working on nuclear exposure aftermaths in post-Soviet countries.
Her research interests encompass a wide range of topics including:
- Health data infrastructures and epidemiology
- Politics of categories, algorithms, and infrastructures
- Feminist technoscience studies
- Postcolonial science studies
- Human-animal relations and multispecies monitoring
- Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia
Bauer's recent publications reveal a strong focus on data infrastructures, box practices, environmental health, and post-Soviet nuclear legacies. Her work often combines archival and ethnographic approaches to examine epistemic infrastructures and sociomaterial orderings in scientific practices. She has made significant contributions to STS scholarship on algorithms, biopolitics, and technoscience east of the former Iron Curtain.
Bauer teaches courses including TIK4011 - Science and Technology in Politics and Society and TIK4001 Lectures in STS Module at the University of Oslo. Prior to joining Tik, she taught STS and sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Humboldt University Berlin, and Indiana University Bloomington.
