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Daniel Lopez

Contact

Daniel Lopez
Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS)
Building B, room 4B317
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

Phone
secretary +32 2 629 24 60
direct
fax +32 2 629 26 62

Email
dlopezgo@vub.ac.be Website: vub.academia.edu/DanielLopez

Daniel Lopez is post-doctoral researcher at LSTS. He graduated in Psychology (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) in 2000 and obtained a Phd in Social Psychology (UAB) in 2009 with a thesis titled "Asegurar el cuidado: Redes, Inmediatez y Autonomía en un Servicio de Teleasistencia Domiciliaria". He has been trained as STS ethnographer. He is lecturer professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya from 2009.

Currently his research activity is focused on the consequences of developing and implementing new technologies, mainly a) the emergence of new spatialities and temporalities of care; b) the emergence of new practices of caring and security; and c) the enactment of hybrid forms of autonomy and independence. He has recently being involved on the EU Marie-Curie IAPP Project, Value Ageing. This project is devoted to the incorporation of ethical values in industrial strategies and technological awareness in policy setting.

His main research interests are Science and Technology Studies, Actor-Network Theory, Biopolitics, Design Anthropology, Surveillance Studies, Material Culture and Care Studies, and he is also interested in the work of Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger.

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