Fellow 2025-2026 Susanne Bauer
Susanne Bauer is a professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS), based at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway, since 2016. Their work in STS brings together feminist technoscience studies, nuclear history, and environmental humanities. Current projects include interdisciplinary research on anthropogenic soils and the technoscience of remediation, as well as on the politics of data and knowledge infrastructures, including the work of modeling and regulation.
Before joining the University of Oslo, Susanne held a junior professorship at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and appointments as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin. Susanne was a postdoctoral researcher in the “Biomedicine on Display” project at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, and co-curator of the exhibition “Split+Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine,” visiting professor at Indiana University Bloomington (U.S.), and senior fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. Their research has been published in journals such as Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology and Human Values; Environmental Humanities; Osiris (History of Science Society); Cahiers du Monde Russe; History of Human Sciences. Recent book publications include: Bauer, Susanne, and Tanja Penter, Tracing the Atom: Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia, Routledge, 2022; Bauer, Susanne; Martina Schlünder & Maria Rentetzi, Boxes: A Field Guide, Manchester: Mattering Press, 2020.