sara tocchetti - Centre Alexandre Koyré

SARA TOCCHETTI
Ph.D.
Swiss National Fund Early PostDoc Mobility,
Centre Alexandre Koyré (UMR 8560), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
27 rue Damesme, 75013 Paris.
E-MAIL
[email protected]
SHORT PROFILE
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Master of Science in Evolutionary Biology and Conservation,
University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics
and Political Sciences, BIOS Centre and Sociology Department.
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Workshop designer and facilitator for science-society communication.
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Coordinating teaching programs and tutoring students.
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Fluency in English, French and Italian.
Fair knowledge of written and spoken German.
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Born on the 17 January 1982 in Lugano (Ticino), Switzerland.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2005
Microbial Ecology Department, University of Wien, Wien – One month.
2001 - 2006
University of Lausanne, Switzerland,
Master of Science in Evolutionary Biology and Conservation.
2006
BIOS Center London School of Economics, London – One month.
2008
Computational Systems Biology Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics,
Berlin – Three months.
2009-2014
Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE),
BIOS Center and Sociology Department. Title: How did DNA become hackable
and biology personal? Tracing the self-fashioning of the DIYbio network
Supervisors: Prof. Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge & Dr. Don Slater, LSE.
2015-2016
Early Post-Doc Mobility, Swiss National Fund, École des hautes études en sciences
sociales, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris – Eighteen months.
2016
Visiting Scholar, Science and Justice Research Center, University of Santa Cruz,
California – Three months.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, TEACHING AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 - 2007
University of Lausanne, Part-time Science Communicator, L'Eprouvette –
Public Laboratory, Science and Society Interface – Two academic years.
2006 - 2008
University of Lausanne, Teaching Assistant, 'Biology and Society' Curriculum –
Two academic years.
2009
University of Lausanne, Synthetic Biology Public Engagement Workshop - Designer,
L'Eprouvette – Public Laboratory, Science and Society Interface – Six months.
2009
London School of Economics, Teaching Assistant for the Quantitative Analysis I
Description and Inference Course – Three months.
2010 - 2012
Content Manager System Administrator for the BIOS Center and the
European Institute – Two and a half years.
02.2015 / 08.2015
University of Lausanne, Collaborator at the Interface Sciences and Society and the
Public Laboratory l'Eprouvette.
04.2015 / 06.2015
University of Geneva, Part-time Science Communicator, Bioscope – Public Laboratory.
09.2015 / 11.2015
University of Geneva, Part-time Science Communicator, Bioscope – Public Laboratory.
20.01.2016
Invited Teacher, Winter School SciencePo Reims, Module Scientific Research.
Course Title: A Laboratory of one's own: desire of social change and professional path of
a young scientist (6 hours).
09.2016 -
SupBiotech, Paris, Lecturer in Sociology of Innovation.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
TOCCHETTI, S.
(Forthcoming) Keep calm and review the literature: our discourses and
engagements with DIYbio and biohacking. Engaging Science, Technology &
Society.
TOCCHETTI, S.
AGUITON, S.,
Is an FBI agent a DIYbiologist like any other? A cultural analysis of a
biosecurity risk. In A. Delfanti and J. Söderberg special issue, Resistance to the
Current. Critical Perspectives on Hacking, Science, Technology & Human Values,
July 2015.
TOCCHETTI, S.
DIYbiologists as 'makers' of personal biologies: how MAKE Magazine
and Maker Faires contribute in constituting biology as a personal technology.
Journal of Peer Production. Issue 2, July 2012.
BOOK CHAPTERS
AGUITON, S.,
BOVET, E.,
TOCCHETTI, S.
Quelles tactiques critiques sur le terrain des promesses scientifiques ?
21 September 2015. In Sciences et technologies émergentes, pourquoi tant de
promesses? Audétat, M. et al.
FINLAY, T.,
GIBSON, S.,
KOCH L.,
TOCCHETTI S.
Personal genomics: transparent to whom? 2015 In M. Dreyer, J. Erdmann, C.
Rehmann-Sutter (eds.) Genetic Transparency? Ethical and social implications of
next generation human genomics and genetic medicine (January 2016). Ch. 4.
Amsterdam, Brill | Rodopi.
NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
TOCCHETTI, S.
Hackteria: Interview with Marc Dusseiller. Musiques et Cultures Digitales,
#68 The Open Future, 2012.
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS (INVITED SPEAKER)
TOCCHETTI, S
Biohacking and its techno-utopia of a personal biology: a feminist perspective.
Université de Genève, Geneva, 8 October 2015.
TOCCHETTI, S
Comment l'ADN devint hackable et la biologie personnelle: le façonnage du
réseau DIYbio. Université de Lyon 7, Lyon, 28 Septembre 2015.
TOCCHETTI, S
Le réseau DIYbio et son utopie socio-technique: critique d'une biologie
personnelle DIY: nouvelles formes de production et d’engagements dans la cité,
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, 6 November 2014.
AGUITON, S.,
BOVET, E.,
TOCCHETTI, S.
Quelles tactiques critiques sur le terrain des promesses scientifiques ?
Emerging science and technologies : Why so many promises ? Brocher
Foundation, Geneva, 30 June – 1 July 2014.
TOCCHETTI, S.
La biologie Do-it-yourself: entre biopolitique tactique et biopolitique
participative. Groupe Sciences Citoyennes, University of Geneva (Switzerland),
12 December 2013.
TOCCHETTI, S.
La biologie Do-it-yourself: entre biopolitique tactique et biopolitique
participative. Séminaire STS, University of Lausanne (Switzerland),
11 December 2013.
AGUITON, S.,
TOCCHETTI, S.
'It could be otherwise': Doit-on défendre l'imaginaire socio-technique?
Séminaire STS, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), 30 May 2013.
TOCCHETTI, S.
Transparency and Distributed Practices in the DIYbio network.
Genetic Transparency Workshop, Ethical and social implications of next
generation human genomics and genetic medicine. University of Lübeck
(Germany), 18 – 23 March 2013.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
TOCCHETTI
A laboratory of one's own: desire of social change and professional path
among young life scientists. 4S / EASST Conference, Barcelona 2 September
2016
TOCCHETTI
DIYbio members, drop-outs and disenfranchised scientists: Digital utopianism
as a tool for social change? Science and Justice Research Center, Santa Cruz
University, 20 April 2016.
TOCCHETTI, S.,
TROUILLOUD, S.
Hands-on on what? Questioning public and community laboratories as sites of
participatory practices. Science and You, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 5 June
2015.
TOCCHETTI, S.
DIYBio: Tactical vs Participatory Biopolitics. World Social Sciences Forum,
Montreal, Canada, 14 October 2013.
AGUITON, S.,
TOCCHETTI, S.
(Poster) Mis-Adventures in Synthetic Biology. Synthetic Biology 6.0 (SB6.0),
Imperial College, London, 10 and 11 July 2013.
AGUITON, S.,
TOCCHETTI, S.
Is an FBI agent a Do-it-yourself biologist as any other? 5th Conference of the
European Graduate Network Conference European Institute - London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, 25 March 2013.
AGUITON, S.
TOCCHETTI, S.
Is an FBI agent a DIYBiologist as any other? Annual Meeting of the Society for
Social Studies of Science Conference (4S), Copenhagen, 19 October 2012.
TOCCHETTI, S.
Ex-biologist not yet turned into an STS scholar searches group of sympathetic
peers interested in critical practices for long term relationships, European
Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Pre-conference
Doctoral Workshop, Copenhagen, 16 October 2012.
TOCCHETTI, S.
The lives of Open Source Biology. The Lives of Property, Organized by the
Research Group Bioproperty and the Institution for Science, Innovation and
Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, 20 and 21 September 2012.
ORGANISER
15.02.2016
Workshop
Détournement, irony and satire : collectively elaborate and work on our
malaises during fieldwork and the research process. University of Lausanne,
in collaboration with STS_CH.
13.10.2016
Seminar
SAGW – Migration and Mobility
Frontières techniques: performativité des recherches militaires dans
la forteresse Europe.
02.12.2016
Seminar
SAGW – Migration and Mobility
Frontières discursives: le vrai et le faux comme technologie de contrôle des
demandes d’asile.
MEDIA EXPERIENCE
RADIO
Retour sur la Biologie de synthèse
Broadcast « CQFD » 26 May 2016, Radio Suisse Romande.
Biologie de synthèse ou créer la vie artificiellement.
Broadcast Babylone, 14 Janvier 2015, Radio Suisse Romande.
Biologie synthétique et biohacking: des liaisons dangereuses ?
Broadcast Zoom Ecologie, 31 January 2012, Fréquence Paris Plurielle
with Sara Aguiton (CSO, Paris).
NEWSPAPER
Le biohacking, quand le biologie sort de l'uni. Uniscope n.601, March 2015.
Gentechnik für jedermann: Zu Besuch bei den Biohackern, Aargauerzeitung,
7 March 2013.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2008
Société Académique Vaudoise
Visitor Max Planck Institute
5000 CHF
2009/10 Academic Year
ProTechno Fundation
PhD Student Scholarship
5000 CHF
2010/11 Academic Year
London School of Economics
Postgraduate Student Scholarship £ 5000
2011/12 Academic Year
London School of Economics
Postgraduate Student Scholarship £ 7500
2011/12 Academic Year
CsynBI Center
Postgraduate Student Scholarship £ 1000
2012/13 Academic Year
London School of Economics
Postgraduate Student Scholarship £ 6700
2012/13 Academic Year
London School of Economics
Sociology Department
Travel Fund
£ 450
2012/13 Academic Year
Genetic Transparency Workshop
Conference Fund
£ 600
2013/14 Academic Year
London School of Economics
Travel Fund
£ 586
2013/14 Academic Year
London School of Economics
In-Course Financial Support
£ 3000
2015/17 Academic Year
Swiss National Foundation
Early.Postdoc Mobility
75000 CHF
2015/16 Academic Year
SAGW – Migration and Mobility
Event Organization Grant
1800 CHF
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editor and peer review for the Journal of Peer Production [since 2014]
Peer Review work for the Journal Science Technology and Human Values [2015]
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society [since 2014]
Treasurer of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society [since 2016]
LANGUAGES
English
Very good written and oral skills.
French
Very good written and oral skills.
German
Fair written and oral skills (B1).
Italian
First language.