{"id":1038,"date":"2021-12-21T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2022-01-10T17:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:13:40","slug":"wrapping-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/hist\/2021\/12\/wrapping-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
The year 2021 is coming to an end and this blog will have some well deserved vacation over the holidays. But before we go all\u00a0 in Christmas, let us look back on some of the great things that happened at the Division this year!<\/div>\n

While a few colleagues left us for other adventures, we welcomed new members to the Division. Klara M\u00fcller<\/strong> joined us as a new PhD student in the Making Universities Matter-project, and Linus Sal\u00f6<\/strong> re-joined us as her main supervisor <\/a>at the very start of 2021. About half a year later Erik Ljungberg<\/strong> started his PhD trainging with us aiming on the History of Media and Environment with a focus on AI and autonomous systems<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nuno Marques<\/strong> started his international postdoc with us and the EHL in July with the project Air Epistemologies: Practices of Ecopoetry in Ibero American Atmospheres<\/a>. Soon after him, Tirza Meyer<\/strong> join us as a postdoc in the project The Mediated Planet: Claiming Data for Environmental SDGs<\/a> led by Sabine H\u00f6hler<\/strong>. We were also happy to recieve the news that Lina Rahm<\/strong>, who has been with us as a Ragnar Holm fellow since last fall<\/a>, will start her position Assistant Professor in the History of Media and Environment with specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems at the Division from January 1 2022.<\/p>\n

Three doctoral students successfully defended their thesis this year:<\/p>\n