Guests at the EHL 2025

Malin Graesse is a postdoctoral fellow in environmental humanities at the The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger. She holds a Ph.D. in art history and visual studies from the University of Oslo, where she also was a doctoral researcher at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH). Her research centers around the relationship between design, science and the environment. In her Ph.D. project she drew on critical animal studies and ethology to explore how fishways could be understood as design interventions in ecosystem processes. Malin is currently part of the Chanse funded project DigiFREN, that studies digital aestheticization of fragile environments. Here she uses historical re-photography as a method for public engagment with environmental change in their local environments.

Malin is interested in design operates as an interface between humans and the external world. Something she has previously explored in an artiststic collaboration together with artist Annike Flo and biologist Hannah Bjørgaas, applying scenographic techniques to engage with the layers of natureculture in the urban forests around Oslo. While at the KTH Environmental Humanities Lab she will be working on turning her Ph.D. thesis into a book, and developing a project on the role of design in organizing, planning and managing water. She will also be co-organizing a workshop on sensing, together with fellow EHL guest, Noemi Quagliati, in May 2025.

Period: February-June

Dr. Tamara Lorenz is an Associate Professor holding a joint appointment in Psychology, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. She got her diploma (MS) in mechanical engineering from TUM Munich, majoring in medical technology, and human factors/ergonomics, and her PhD in Systemic neuroscience and cognitive psychology from LMU Munich. Her research focusses on human-machine interaction (HMI) with new and emerging technologies such as robots, AI, and virtual reality. Dr. Lorenz’ research takes a complex systems approach that ranges from basic to applied research, with major applications in healthcare and industry 5.0. Besides research, her mission is to promote transdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving and humane technology development. Dr. Lorenz currently serves as the director for the Cognition, Action, and Perception (CAP) Group and leads the Embodied Interactive Systems Lab. She has co-founded several transdisciplinary initiatives at UC, such as the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) and the Industry 4.0/5.0 Institute (I45I).

Dr. Lorenz is a Digital Futures Scholar-in-Residence from March to May 2025, hosted by Robert Gioielli , Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities, Director KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH, Digital Futures Faculty. During her visit to KTH Dr. Lorenz will explore actionable methods for more humane technology development and pathways for interdisciplinary engagement between engineering and the humanities. 

Period: March to May

Fotini Frangou is a recent graduate in Environmental Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and is currently having an internship at the Environmental Humanities Laboratory (EHL) at KTH. Throughout her studies she developed a deep interest in environmental ethics,sustainability and the relationship between humans and the environment. At EHL she's contributing to the Occupy Climate Change! project.

Period: March to June

Noemi Quagliati is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she leads the project “Bird’s-Eye Views of the Venetian Lagoon. Planetary Visions and Birdscapes of an Aquatic Ecosystem”, and is affiliated with THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE).

Noemi received a Ph.D. in art history from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society on the subject of landscape photography in WWI Germany. Before joining Ca’ Foscari, she lectured on German eco-aesthetics at the Junior Year in Munich program (LMU and Wayne State University) and taught courses on North American photography and art at LMU’s Amerika-Institut. Over the last years, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, and the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Deutsches Museum, where she has collaborated on modernizing the museum’s historical aviation section by investigating the topic of aerial photography. She has been offered research grants from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Käte Hamburger Kolleg: Cultures of Research at RWTH Aachen University, and the European University Institute (EUI).

While at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Noemi will collaborate with Malin Kristine Graesse to organise an interdisciplinary workshop on sensing the environment beyond the ocular. She will also advance her MSCA project by researching local perceptions of specific bird species that winter in Venice and nest in the Baltic regions.

Period: April to May

Dr. Alfred Sköld  is an Associate Professor of General Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His PhD-dissertation, Relationality and Finitude: A Social Ontology of Grief (2021), focused on the existential and ethical aspects of grief, and in his currect reseach project, Emotions of Climate Activism, he investigaste the the role of emotions in a climate activist setting. The project is based on ethnographic field work and qualitative interview study with The Green Youth Movement (Den grønne ungdomsbevælgese) in Denmark. Sköld has published extensively on grief and death awareness and is the editor of several anthologies: Kampen om lykken (2020) with Svend Brinkmann, Kærlighedens kartotek (2023), Det syge samfund (2025) with Peter Clement Lund, and Det håbende dyr (2025) with Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth. He has previously been a visiting researcher at Yale University, Södertörn University, and The International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin.

During his stay at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, Sköld will work on his forthcoming book, Youth Climate Activism and Emotive Responses to the Ecological Crisis: Bridging Historical Context and Existential Conditions. The book broadly explores our emotional responses to the ecological crisis, with a particular focus on the relationship between grief, hope, and care within the context of climate activism.

Period: May