Sebastián Ureta holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting scholar at several universities and research centers, including Department III of the MPIWG in 2018, when he worked together with Dr. Wilko Graf von Hardenberg and Dr. Thomas Lekan on the project “Baselining Nature.” Along with several research papers in leading journals, he is the author of Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World-Class Society (MIT Press 2015). In 2022, the University of California Press will publish his new book Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice.