I am a full professor of Media and Culture at Linköping University in Sweden. I am also a ProFutura Scientia XVII Fellow (2023-2028) at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, and a research affiliate at the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara.

My research explores negotiations of values and power relationships in moments when media/digital infrastructures such as software, data centers, or communication networks are being built or dismantled.

My work is positioned at the intersection between media and communication studies, STS and cultural studies of digital technologies. My research is currently on the end of life of communication infrastructures in Sweden.  For a decade I have also been studying the relations between digital infrastructure and energy with focus on data centers and the cultural production of ideas of digital sustainability (see the website of the Megabytes vs Megawatts project). I am currently working on several major writing projects that bring together this research.

My academic trajectory in brief

I completed a PhD in media and communication studies at Södertörn University in 2018 with a thesis on the cultural politics of making free software for computer graphics media production, in particular the 3D animation software Blender and the 2D Synfig. My dissertation was awarded in 2019 the second prize for best PhD thesis in media and communication studies in Sweden.

Between 2018 and 2022 I was the vice-chair of the Media Industries and Cultural Production section of the European Communication and Research Education Association (ECREA), and between 2018 and 2020 I was a post-doc in Digital Innovations at the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki. There I was part of the Data, Self & Society group, and my position was 50% funded by the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities. Between 2020 and summer 2025 I worked first as an assistant professor and then associate professor of media studies, and of technology and social change at the Department for Thematic Studies (TEMA-T) at Linköping University in Sweden. In the beginning of 2023 I founded and currently co-chair the Data Lab at Linköping University.

Prior to academia, I worked for 12 years professionally as software developer; as project manager in an NGO, as theater producer, and as performance art festival fund-raiser. I live in the countryside in Sweden where I enjoy growing a vegetable garden in the summer and getting better in Nordic ice-skating in the winter.