Rose has a background in Chemistry and Science and Technology Studies (STS) with a focus on (techno)epistemic cultures in the natural sciences, more-than-human lifeworlds within scientific research, environmental justice and developing speculative methods as means of exploring sustainable, meaningfully democratic futures. Since May 2026, Rose has been a researcher in the project C’est La Vie: Digital Humanism in 21st Century Life Science Academia in Vienna.
Rose holds both a BSc in Chemistry and a BA in German from the University of California Davis (USA), and a MA in STS from the University of Vienna. Rose is a graduate of the The Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC, 2024). She is currently in the progress of completing her PhD at Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (The Netherlands).
During her PhD research, Rose combined STS and human geography to examine ethnographically the current transforms occurring in deep sea research cultures across various European research institutions in light of the blue energy transitions. In addition to her more socially scientific directed research, Rose reflects on deep sea futures through ethnographically situated explorations of speculative fabulation, the right to opacity, and the blending of historical and contemporary narratives of scientific exploration and research at depth.
She has also worked as a project researcher in the citizen science project, Environmental monitoring of pesticide use through honeybees (University of Graz), and as a research assistant in both STS (University of Vienna) and (In)organo-metallic chemistry (University of California) contexts. Additionally, Rose is committed to supporting emerging scholars through community-building, and creating spaces for STS activism in-and-outside of academic life worlds.
