Julia is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Energy Transitions at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, in the Section for Science and Technology Studies, at the Technical university of Denmark (DTU). Here she is building up a growing STS research group focused on energy. 

Coming from the tradition of Valuation Studies and Social Studies of Markets in STS, her research has been focused on valuation struggles and controversies in the energy transition, both in a Danish and international perspective. After finishing her PhD (2015) from Copenhagen Business School on valuation struggles over wind power marketisation in China, she worked for several years at DTU’s Department of Wind and Energy Systems, working closely with engineers and other practitioners. With research stays in China, at Stanford University in California, and NTNU in Norway, she has a wide network in academia and the energy sector. 

Apart from the Sapere Aude project, Julia is also PI of the Good by Devicing project funded by an ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council, and she is former PI of the Co-Green project funded by IFD (2021-2024)

Tom is an engineer by training and has worked with renewable energy technology since 2003, having gained his Master’s in Renewable Energy Engineering from Loughborough University in the UK. Having always had an interest in how technology and society interact, he embarked on a more interdisciplinary career in 2015, working actively in finding the synergies between engineering science and social science perspectives. 

An affinity for the approaches used in Science and Technology studies developed and he now sees great potential and opportunities with the Expertise of Expectations project to both cultivate a very fruitful conversation between the disciplines, but also to translate research findings into issues and debates that will help our society in the challenges that we face, particularly with climate change.

Rebekka is a PhD student at DTU Management in the Section of Science and Technology Studies. With a BA and MSc in Sociology from the University of Copenhagen, Rebekka holds an interest in sociology of knowledge and politics, with a focus on environmental issues. Rebekka has previously investigated how civil society actors work to bring concerns of social, democratic, and ecological nature into controversies over complex technological developments, such as nuclear power and the treatment of radioactive wastewater. 

In the Expertise of Expectations project, Rebekka aims to map the contesting voices from civil society and within expert networks, to pinpoint the dynamics of exclusion when setting expectations for Power-to-X. From this, new issues and alliances may be rendered visible in pursuit of a more socially sustainable energy transition.

Julius is a postdoc at the Section for Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Technology, Management and Economics. He is an economic sociologist exploring knowledge and valuation at the intersection of economy and nature with a focus on financial knowledge production and epistemic authority in technoscience and socioecological crisis. He will investigate financial and other forms of expertise involved in Power-to-X (green hydrogen) and how they shape expectations of PtX and low-carbon futures.

In his PhD in sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Julius explored the financialisaton of disasters in a study on natural catastrophe modelling and its emergence and design in (re)insurance and capital markets. As a research fellow at Warwick Business School, he then co-developed and conducted a 4-year, team-ethnographic study on climate-related knowledge production and use in the institutional investment industry.

With a background in sociology, social studies of finance and STS, he holds an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Warwick, a master in sociology from the London School of Economics, and has been a visiting researcher at The New School and at Columbia University and a teaching fellow at Hamburg University.