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THE TEAM

RUNE SAUGMANN
PI, Researcher
Tampere University
rune.saugmann.andersen@tuni.fi

Rune Saugmann is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University and an adjunct professor in Media and Communications studies at Helsinki University.

VASILIS GALIS
Researcher
IT University of Copenhagen
vgal@itu.dk

Vasilis Galis is Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has conducted research on the digitalization of the welfare state, borders, and on law enforcement, informed by qualitative methods. Galis has led the projects Welfare after Digitalization and Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing. Galis research focuses on the social impact of digitalization in critical security infrastructures and sectors of the welfare state. 

BJÖRN KARLSSON
Post-doc researcher
IT University of Copenhagen
bjrk@itu.dk 

Björn Karlsson is an ethnographic researcher of digitalized police work. In his PhD thesis, he investigated the POL-INTEL platform of the Danish police as part of a wider inquiry into data-driven, or predictive, policing. In his postdoctoral work within the UNDO project, Björn continues his interest in the transformation of law enforcement in the Nordics by investigating the police in Denmark and Sweden. In another life, Björn was a high school teacher of sociology and philosophy, and he continues to be highly interested in pedagogy and teaching alongside issues of politics, ontology and epistemology.

SAARA SÄRMÄ
Postdoctoral researcher
Tampere University
saara.sarma@tuni.fi

Dr. Saara Särmä is a feminist writer, part-time academic, sometime artist, and occasional activist. She is the creator of “Congrats, you have an all male panel!” and co-founder of the Feminist Think Tank Hattu, which is known for School of Daring and Cursing Soirées. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Tampere, 2014) focused on internet parody images and developed an art-based collage methodology for studying world politics, which her postdoctoral project (at Tampere University 2019-2023) Making Meaning out of Meme-making expanded. Academically, her main interests are politics of visuality, critical militarism studies, arts-based methods, and online misogyny, which she also addresses in her artistic practice.

YANNIS EFTHYMIOU
Software dev & researcher
Tampere University
ioannis.efthymiou@tuni.fi

Yannis Efthymiou is a PhD researcher at Tampere University, focusing on AI and computer vision technologies with a focus on counter-surveillance in urban settings. With experience as a full-stack engineer and data scientist, he has worked on projects ranging from web applications to machine learning. His expertise lies in human-computer interaction, social innovation, and the use of technology to address critical societal issues.

KRISTOFFER KRONANDER
Filmmaker
Pråmfilm
kristoffer@pramfilm.se