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Chair

Chair for Sociology of Technology

Dr. Paul Trauttmansdorff

Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details

trauttmansdorff[at]europa-uni.de

Office: CP 118
Office hours: By appointment (send me an Email)

Research Areas

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Border and Migration Governance
  • Sociotechnical Imaginaries
  • Data Infrastructures and (In)Security

Curriculum Vitae

Paul joined the STS group at ENS first as a postdoctoral fellow in October 2023 and later as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair for Sociology of Technology. Paul studied Philosophy and Socioeconomics in Vienna and Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then completed his PhD in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Vienna (2018-2022), where his thesis investigated the construction and maintenance of databases in the European border regime and the rise of the EU Agency eu-LISA. He later joined the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Bologna, working as a postdoc researcher in the ERC StG Project Processing Citizenship – Digital registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and Europe (PI: Annalisa Pelizza).

In his research, Paul is interested in the contestations and controversies around techno-scientific innovation, the creation and maintenance of data infrastructures, and the ongoing transformations of border and migration regimes. He is intrigued by questions about the social, political, and ethical implications of sociotechnical transformations and the contemporary (data) infrastructures that must undergird and sustain such transformations.

Selection of most recent publications

Paul Trauttmansdorff (2024). The Digital Transformation of the European Border Regime. The Powers and Perils of Imagining Future Borders. Bristol: Bristol University Press. ISBN 978-1529235203

Klimburg-Witjes, Nina, and Paul Trauttmansdorff, eds. 2023. Technopolitics and the Making of Europe. Infrastructures of Security. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003267409.

Trauttmansdorff, Paul. 2023. “The Fabrication of a Necessary Policy Fiction: The Interoperability ‘Solution’ for Biometric Borders.” Critical Policy Studies 17 (3): 428–46. doi:10.1080/19460171.2022.2147851

Trauttmansdorff, Paul, and Ulrike Felt. 2023. “Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime.” Science Technology and Human Values 48 (3): 635–62. doi:10.1177/01622439211057523.

Trauttmansdorff, Paul. 2022. “Borders, Migration, and Technology in the Age of Security: Intervening with STS.” TECNOSCIENZA Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies 13 (2): 133–54. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2038-3460/17584.