Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan School of Information/University of California-Irvine and Fudan University Shanghai
Silvia Lindtner is a research scientist at the ISTC-Social (the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing) at the University of California, Irvine and a post-doctoral fellow at Fudan University, Shanghai. She is also an incoming faculty member at the University of Michigan in the School of Information. Together with Anna Greenspan and David Li, she is the co-founder of Hacked Matter, a Shanghai-based Research Hub. Silvia researches, writes, and teaches about DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and industry development in China. Drawing on her background in interaction design and media studies, she merges ethnographic methods with approaches in design and making. This approach allows her to provide deep insights into emerging cultures of technology production and use from a sociological and technological perspective. Her work is published across the fields of human-computer interaction, media and communication studies, science and technology studies, cultural anthropology, and China studies. Silvia is the recipient of a NSF grant, a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, a Chinese Government Scholarship 2012, and two Intel Research Grants.