Alexander Peine
Open University in The Netherlands
Alexander Peine is a
Full Professor of Culture, Innovation and Communication at the Open University
in The Netherlands. His research takes place at the cross-section of Science
and Technology Studies (STS) and Social Gerontology.
He is interested in
exploring and theorizing the role of digital infrastructures – such as
smartphones, tablets, PCs, apps, fitness trackers, pedometers, “brain games”,
digital monitoring systems, digital health, and other devices – and their
development in relation to ageing and later life. The main aim of his research
is to overcome the divide between social analyses of aging, on the one hand, and
engineering and design-based approaches, on the other, and obtain an
empirically grounded theoretical understanding of later life in digitizing
societies.
Before joining the Open University, Alexander was and Associate
Professor at Utrecht University, the laureate of a prestigious Max Weber
post-doctoral fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI) in
Florence, and a Principal Investigator at Berlin University of Technology.