PhD Fellow in STS; Living Materials, Participatory Prototyping and Future Making (ref 234354)

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are likely to become part of our everyday life, with applications in a wide range of areas such architecture, environment and health. The PhD candidate will use Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches to investigate living materials as existing in possible future worlds with a focus on social, regulatory and policy implications. The PhD candidate will be working in FUNGATERIA work package seven (WP7), led by Associate Professor Ana Delgado.

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are envisioned as enabling a wide range of solutions towards a transition to greener economies. The FUNGATERIA consortium works to model and prototype mycelium-based ELMs, exploring collaborations between fungi and bacteria to produce materials with computational capabilities. This opens for new ways of imaging buildings and cities, and potentially other objects, based on living materials. ELMs are qualified as being ‘smart materials’ in so far as they take advantage from intrinsic properties of life such as the capacity for self-repairing and healing. This also creates challenges regarding the programmability of ELMs, and the ways in which these materials can be designed to behave in a controlled way over time. Anticipating futures through activities such as modeling is  key to design activities in FUNGATERIA.

The appointment is for a fixed term position for a period of three years. The position might include teaching, grading etc. at TIK in which case the project will be extended accordingly up until a maximum of 4 years.

The PhD candidate will be part of the Science and Technology Studies group at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, and will have the opportunity to be part of a vibrant intellectual environment.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/234354/phd-fellow-in-sts-living-materials-participatory-prototyping-and-future-making