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Jess Bier is an Associate Professor of Urban Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, specializing in the social-political impacts of scientific and technological knowledge. Her research is situated at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and critical geography. She employs theories from racial capitalism, Black feminism, decolonial theory, and feminist theories of technoscience. Jess is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded Digiports project, which aims to understand the injustices reproduced by radical technological change in the context of digitalization and container shipping. Her dissertation won the 2016 Maastricht University Dissertation Prize and focused on monitoring financial flows during the 2007-08 financial crisis. She has also conducted ethnographic research on this topic as part of the ERC-funded Monitoring Modernity project.
Erasmus University Rotterdam • Rotterdam, Netherlands
Engages in research and teaching in urban sociology, focusing on the intersection of science, technology, and society.
Department of Econometrics / MSc Econometrics and Management Science.