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Assistant Professor in Technology Governance at ETH Zurich's Department of Humanities, Social Political Sciences, Matthias Leese has a research focus on the effects of digital technologies on social order. His work pays specific attention to how security organizations’ rationales and practices are co-constituted with technological and social factors. He has published widely in leading journals in the fields of International Relations, Science and Technology Studies, and Criminology. Leese is the co-author of "Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing Everyday Police Work" (2025) and serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2021). His research has received recognition, including an ERC Starting Grant, for studies on data quality in European law enforcement and border control cooperation (CURATE).
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