Dr. Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen

Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, and part of the techno-anthropological research group with a special focus on Ethnographic Future Making: Datafication, Environment and Infrastructures. Astrid received her PhD in Social Anthropology in 2014 from University of Copenhagen with a dissertation on urban ecology and water politics in Arequipa, Peru. Her research centres on human-environment relations, focusing mainly on urban ecology and water politics in Peru, and hunting livelihoods and environmental politics and management in Northwest Greenland. In her research, Astrid is interested in how environmental and climatic changes are experienced and acted upon in different contexts, and in the ways expertise, ways of knowing and politics tangle up in particular ways in different environments. She is currently part of the SECURE project at Aalborg University, an interdisciplinary project that develops secure computation techniques and examines the socio-technical possibilities and implications of future cyber-physical systems. Astrid has experience in interdisciplinary work, and interest in how cross-disciplinary collaborations (also beyond academia) can provide new insights and generate change in the status quo of knowing and doing environmental and data politics. She has rich experience in research dissemination, and interest in experimenting with different formats for communicating research results and broader publics, including the involvement and participation of stakeholders.

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