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Wakana Suzuki

Wakana Suzuki is a PhD candidate based in the Graduate School of Human Science at Osaka University and in the Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University, Japan. Prior to her training in anthropology and in Science and Technology Studies (STS), she worked as a journalist for five years. During this time, she developed her interest in the relationship between society and science. Her current research focuses on the way in which stem cell scientists produce medical knowledge and technologies with other living beings, such as cells and laboratory animals. Since 2015, she has been a visiting PhD scholar at the University of Amsterdam, where she is developing a theoretical understanding of the data she has collected during her ethnographic fieldwork in a stem cell laboratory in Japan (2013–15). In 2016, Wakana started a new research project exploring human and nonhuman relationships in Japanese life sciences; this research is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Ikushi Prize (the Japanese Emperor’s prize). She has also become involved in a new international research project called “Assemblages of the Future,” launched by Japanese, Hungarian, and Danish anthropologists and STS scholars. This project focuses on how multiple futures are made by assemblages of techno-scientific practices, and on future imaginaries and discourses in the age of the Anthropocene.