Dr Beatrice Bonami
Job Title
Research Fellow (Planetary Networks of AI Systems - WP1)
Room number
4.04Street (Address)
18 Buccleuch PlaceCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
United KingdomResearch interests
Research interests
I am interested in the intersection between technology and society, from the standpoint of STS (Science, Society and Technology Studies), Eco-Philosophy, Critical Data Studies, Positionally and Epistemic Justice, Decoloniality, Ontological Turn, and Global South and non-Western Studies. Additionally I am keen on discussions regarding the history, ethics and philosophy of technology and on debates about radical uncertainties and futures.
Background
Beatrice Bonami is a Brazilian STS scholar. She has multi-country experience in a variety of multicultural settings, including government, educational environments, and indigenous territories. Dr. Bonami holds a Ph.D. in STS and Information Sciences by the University of São Paulo [Brazil], University College London [United Kingdom], and Universita La Sapienza di Roma [Italy]. She held numerous research grants during her academic professional career including prestigious funding cycles with the DAAD (2023-2025), the Volkswagen Stiftung (2023), the Mozilla Foundation (2022), the Internet Society (2021), the Alan Turing Institute (2019-2020), CAPES/CNPq (2015-2019). Alongside smaller institutional grants from the Universität Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute, the Universiteit von Amsterdam and the University of Edinburgh. For previous projects, she has coordinated ethnographic research in the Amazon Rainforest (6 years in Brazil and Venezuela), West Africa (1 year in Senegal, Gambia and Mali) and East Africa (1 year in Rwanda, the DRC and Kenya).