Selen Eren

I am an environmental social scientist working across science and technology studies (STS), empirical philosophy of science, and political ecology. My research examines how scientific frameworks, practices, and institutional arrangements shape what environmental problems are, whose expertise counts, and which futures become possible.

My empirical work spans biodiversity conservation, soil carbon monitoring and accounting, and sociohydrology. Across these fields, I have studied how environmental knowledge is shaped through practices of multispecies care and through frictions around different timescapes, accounting logics, and understandings of scale.

In my current postdoctoral project In the Shadow of Carbon, funded by the Kone Foundation, I focus on how scientific knowledge about soil carbon increase is being produced, contested, and translated into carbon farming practices and governance through multiple carbon accounting systems in Finland.