Hannah Landecker is a historian and sociologist of the life sciences, currently in residence as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for the 2021-2022 academic year. She holds a joint appointment in the life and social sciences at the University of California Los Angeles, where she is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, and the Institute for Society and Genetics, an interdisciplinary unit at UCLA committed to cultivating research and pedagogy at the interface of the life and human sciences. Originally trained in cell and developmental biology at the University of British Columbia, Landecker went on to do a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at MIT, and has researched and taught across many disciplines.  Landecker is the author of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies (Harvard UP, 2007), and has published widely on biotechnology and the intersection of biology and film. Her more recent work concerns the rise of antibiotic resistance, and the history and sociology of metabolism and epigenetics.

 

Susanne Winterling works across a range of media to explore the sentient economy, cultures and transformations of elements and materialisations. With an emphasis on enhancing our perceptual and critical consciousness, Winterling undertakes affective and material-based research that highlights interaction between materials, elements and species. Susanne Winterling lives in Berlin.