Carolin Kaltofen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (University College London), where she is heading a research project on ‘Science Diplomacy’, which maps the diverse interactions between the sciences and global governance. She has been teaching at the Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth, where she obtained her doctorate degree in International Politics. Carolin’s research is located at the intersection between metaphysics, materialisms, and the study of science and technology. She is particularly interested in how new technologies change the conditions of the political and being in the world.