GEEKOLOGIST (n): One who studies scientists and technologists in their social and cultural context.

... That's so meta.

A Ph.D. graduate from Cornell University in Science & Technology Studies, I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Informatics, in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. My work focuses on the complex intersections between people, science and technology such as the social organization of robotic spacecraft teams, and the role of images in scientific practice. I'm currently conducting an ethnographic study of the Cassini Mission to Saturn, have just finished a dissertation on the Mars Exploration Rover mission, and am keeping up other projects in Human-Computer Interaction and the history of astronomy...