Susanne Bauer

Susanne Bauer’s research draws from STS as well as from history, sociology and anthropology of science. It has dealt in particular with health data infrastructures, the politics of categories, infrastructures and algorithms in epidemiology and environmental health. She has longstanding research collaborations with scientists working on the aftermaths of nuclear exposures in post-Soviet countries.

Through combined archival and ethnographic work, Susanne's research asks for the epistemic infrastructures and the sociomaterial orderings enacted through scientific practices in the wet labs of the life sciences and in the dry labs of informatics. While based at University of Frankfurt/Main, she embarked on a collective project on a multispecies study of the intersections of life and technology at Frankfurt airport. Her current projects engage feminist technoscience studies and postcolonial science studies and contribute to STS scholarship on algorithms, biopolitics and human-animal relations, postsocialism and technoscience east of what used to be the iron curtain.