Since then, I have conducted anthropological fieldwork all over the world, from Inuit communities in Greenland, to Jakartan riversettlements and European hospitals. I am currently working as a researcher and lecturer at the Anthropology department University of Amsterdam. My work focuses upon what I call sustainable humanity: how do we stay humane, in times of datification and technologization?
In particular, I study the ways in which humans and alghorythms increasingly work together and make decisions, creating new inequalities and perspectives in global society.
In doing so, I am always interested in creating innovative methodologies. Furthermore, I am motivated to make my research as accessible as possible for readers from a wide range of backgrounds, by combining academic writing with deep journalism, the latter being published in books, newspapers and opinionmagazines.
My academic books have been published internationally, by Routledge, HarperCollins and Polity. I also serve as an the President of the Dutch Future Society, an organization for professional future-foresighters.
I have developed several University-courses for Bachelor and Masterstudents, as well as for non-academic professionals. Besides, I supervise bachelors, master and PHD students while writing their theses. In reality, all alghorytmic decisions are made in collaboration with humans: it is us, who create them, evaluate them, follow theiroutcomes or deviate from them.
