About Us

I am a social anthropologist and user researcher with extensive research experience in the government and academia. My work has examined the financialisation of housing, algorithmic risk-profiling in housing decisions, legitimacy tactics and online media usage in science-sceptical discourses, socio-technical evaluations of generative AI usage in the government, and the role of digital interfaces in citizen-state interactions.

My interest in political technology stems from more than a decade of social-science research into how technical systems carry political assumptions. I approach it as an analytical lens to make visible the ways infrastructures, algorithms, and datasets are sites where democratic values, accountability, and legitimacy are continuously negotiated. Coming from an anthropological tradition, I see the mapping of this field as a method for surfacing how an emerging field is being constituted: who is included, who is missing, which problems are framed as technical and which as political, and how resources, expertise, and legitimacy circulate among actors.

I currently work as a Data Scientist at "Our World in Data", making data on the world's largest challenges transparent and accessible. Within that role I work on a broad variety of topics, from Migration and Displacement all the way to Biotechnology, Happiness and Time Use. I curate and visualise the available data, with the goal that people can interact with it and answer questions and form beliefs on the basis of the data we have.

I have a master's degree in Data Science (my undergrad was in mathematics) and I previously worked on computational genetics research and as a management consultant for corporate strategy. I grew up and went to university in Germany and lived in Switzerland for three years before moving to London in early 2024.

I am a technologist who wants to build radical technology to improve human lives. I am interested in projects that demonstrate an alternate vision for technology; a vision that centres and empowers everyday people rather than large corporations and the ultra-rich.

I currently work on improving collaborative research writing workflows at Overleaf. Past projects that I am proud of include building a patient deduplication system for a provincial government to improve vaccination coverage rates and launching BBC Music Memories - a site targeted at helping users with dementia reminisce.