I am a Postdoc at the Interacting Minds Centre. My work sits at the intersections of STS, sociology, gender studies, and medical anthropology. I am broadly interested in questions of embodiment and carnality, and in how human bodies and their parts become resources, technologies, evidence, and objects and subjects of ethical concern in biomedicine. Drawing on ethnographic methods, I study how scientific knowledge, research practices, and ethics are made in everyday settings.
My current research examines how human-derived materials are used, valued, and governed in biomedicine. I am particularly interested in the ethical lives of bodily materials and the ways their origins continue to matter. In my doctoral research at the University of Helsinki, I explored how ethics is enacted in egg, blood, and cornea donation, showing how donated tissues remain deeply connected to donors, bodies, and social relationships.
My primary responsibility as a Postdoc at the Power of the Model project led by Professor Mette Terp Høybye is conducting ethnographic research on biomedical research practices and the use of human-derived materials. This includes fieldwork in laboratory settings, qualitative data collection and analysis, academic writing, and dissemination.
