Fiona (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. With an interdisciplinary background in critical data studies, human computer interaction, and urban design, her research explores the socio-technical, environmental and spatial dimensions of emerging data-driven technologies and infrastructures. She has a PhD in Technology and Society from the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin (2021) and a Masters in Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (2009). Previously, she was an Environmental Protection Agency sponsored Fulbright visiting scholar at the School of Media Studies, the New School in New York City. She was a curator for the Irish national pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale and co-editor of the book, States of Entanglement: Data in the Irish Landscape (Actar Publishers, 2021).

Contact Fiona at: fiona.mcdermott@tcd.ie

Dipali is a Research Fellow at the CONNECT Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks, Trinity College Dublin. Her interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of the energy/digital humanities, policy studies, and sustainable development. Most recently, her research has focused on the socio-cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of the green and digital transitions in the UK and Ireland, by paying specific attention to Net Zero, Circular Economy and decarbonisation policy analyses. Prior to TCD, Dipali was a Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and a British Academy Newton International Fellow at Ulster University. She holds an award-winning PhD in the Environmental Humanities from the University of Wollongong, Australia, published as Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

Contact Dipali at: dmathur@tcd.ie 

Laure (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the CONNECT Research Ireland Centre for Future Networks, Trinity College Dublin. Since 2018, she has been involved in various community and activist projects in Dublin. In 2024, she completed a PhD research looking at the intersection of climate justice and other urban environmental justice struggles in South Dublin. Her main research interests are socio-environmental marginalization processes in all their forms. You can check her research blog at https://river-poddles.ie and get in touch anytime at detymowl@tcd.ie

Harun (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in embedded systems, optimisation, and control in the School of Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on applying complex systems theory within the context of emerging technologies of communication and computation, as well as exploring systemic perspectives on the nexus of technology, society, and art. He is interested in limits of distributed solutions and self-organisation in social, biological, and engineered systems. Previously, he was a Marie Skłodowska Curie COFUND postdoctoral fellow with CONNECT Centre (2017-2020). He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and a Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Contact Harun at: harun.siljak@tcd.ie

Jessica (she/her/they) is a poet and lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. With a background in Art, Design and Education (B.Des./H.Dip.), Jessica’s research engages with the politics and performance of knowing (or not knowing), particularly in relation to information and communications technologies (ICTs) at the intersections of education and industry. 

Jessica has a PhD in Critical and Creative Field-Work in Engineering and Society from the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin (2016) and a Masters in Art in the Contemporary World from the National College of Art and Design (2007). Previously, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at Maynooth University, where she developed critical and creative field-work in relation to Smart City research (2018-2021 – inclusive of maternity leave). 

Jessica practices, teaches and researches embodied, experimental approaches to writing, reading and critical inquiry, with an emphasis on both amplifying and creating conditions for ecological, relational and life-affirming strategies towards decolonisation and environ/mental health. Most recently, she was Writer-in-Residence at The Complex with Mirror Lamp Press (2025), and has collaborated with artist Fiona McDonald on her work Inhale Exhale (Solo-Exhibition RHA, 2026), focused on peatland rewetting and restoration. 

Contact Jessica at: Jessica.Foley@iadt.ie