Dr Alexandra Supper (A.)
Expertise
Alexandra Supper is an assistant professor at the Department of Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University. She does research at the intersection between science & technology studies (STS) and sensory studies. She is also the academic coordinator of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Between 2008 and 2011, Alexandra was a PhD researcher within the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, and participated in the training programme of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC). In her PhD research, she investigated the practice of sonification, the auditory display of scientific data. Her PhD thesis, 'Lobbying for the Ear: The Public Fascination with and Academic Legitimacy of the Sonification of Scientific Data' analyses the emergence of scientific/artistic community dedicated to sonification and that community's struggles to have listening to scientific data accepted as a scientific approach.
Professional career history
Education:
2008-2012
PhD (with distinction) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.
2008-2009
Training programme of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology & Modern Culture (WTMC).
2003-2004
Erasmus exchange student at the Faculty of Arts, Maastricht University
2001-2007
Magistra of sociology (with distinction) at the University of Vienna.
Academic Job Experience:
2014-present
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.
May 2013
Visiting Professor of Science-Technology-Society, University of Vienna.
2012-2014
Post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.
2008-2011
PhD researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University.
2006-2007
(Partially funded) research on a master’s thesis at the Department of Social Studies of Science in Vienna.
2005-2006
Research Assistant to Ulrike Felt in a mapping project of research activities and structures in the field of Science-Technology-Society in the EU for the European Commission.
2005- 2006
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Social Studies of Science, University of Vienna.
Other Academic Activities:
2013-present
Academic coordinator of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2013
Member of the Programme Committee of the First International Conference of the European Sound Studies Association (ESSA) on “Functional Sounds”, Berlin, October 2013.
2012-2013
Project coordinator for a sound installation at the Amsterdam Museum based on the NWO project Soundscapes of the Urban Past.
2009-2010
PhD Member of the Educational Committee of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology & Modern Culture (WTMC).
2006-2007
Student member in the planning committee for an MA program in “Science-Technology-Society” at the University of Vienna.
A. Supper
Assistant Professor. Academic coordinator of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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