Selen Eren

I am an interdisciplinary social scientist working on the politics of environmental science and biotechnologies targeted to address pressing environmental crises, with an expertise in science and technology studies and a focus on multispecies, transdisciplinary and interventionist approaches. In particular, I am highly motivated to work with natural scientists and practitioners, whose work addresses different forms of biodiversity loss at different scales, to understand and transform the kinds of knowledge and relations they produce in order to contribute to building just and multispecies liveable futures.

My current post doc investigates the role of microbes in achieving a sustainable bioeconomy. Specifically, I research how microbes are being imagined and brought into being in technoscientific discourses and practices of companies in Finland and in the USA, and what kinds of socio-economic and human-environment relations that the technoscientific enactments of microbes (re)produce. Previously, I worked on the scientific knowledge production process aimed at addressing the rapid decline of the Dutch national bird, focusing on researchers’ relations with birds and societal knowledge actors.