In my research, I explore resource-making through practices and processes around decision-making that define how we make resources: how we think the human-nature interrelation, and how we decide on which resources to use, in which functions, and why. These perspectives and decision-making practices and processes determine how nature is transformed for the reproduction of life in what is known as ‘the economy’.
I have a particular interest in non-renewable mineral-based materials, and their uses in technologies used for energy harvesting and storage. So far, my research has led me from rare earth element-permanent magnets to lithium-based battery chemistries.
Our worlds are built with these materials: We use energy to extract the mineral raw materials, to refine them to precursor materials, and to produce mineral-based materials – including for our energy technologies that fuel our lives.
The GloRI project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101026044 from June 2022 to May 2025.