Matteo Vivi, MA
Biography
Matteo Vivi is a researcher at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. He currently is collaborating with the project Innovation Residues – Modes and infrastructures of caring for our longue-durée environmental futures (INNORES), where he is looking at political and socio-technical cultures around the management of nuclear waste in different countries. He is particularly interested in questions of placement, replacement, and displacement of low- and medium radioactive waste, especially in relation to the siting of waste disposal facilities onto national geographies.
Before joining the University of Vienna, he worked as a research assistant in various projects at the Department of Science, Technology, and Society of the Technical University of Munich, collaborating with the Innovation, Society & Public Policy research group as well as the Chair for Sociology of Science. He also worked as a student assistant at the Munich Science Communication Lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2022, he spent five months as a trainee at EURAC Research in South Tyrol.
After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Bologna in Italy, Matteo studied Media Studies (M.A.) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Science and Technology Studies (M.A.) at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.
His research interests focus on the co-construction of gendered identities, environmentalism, and technological artifacts, particularly in relation to masculinities and “green” technologies (e.g., electric vehicles, solar panels). He is also interested in regional innovation cultures, exploring how different places in the world make sense of innovation initiatives as a driver for sociotechnical, geographical, and cultural change.
Matteo speaks Italian, German, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Publications
Vivi, M., & Hermans, A.-M. (2022). “Zero Emission, Zero Compromises”: An Intersectional, Qualitative Exploration of Masculinities in Tesla’s Consumer Stories. Men and Masculinities, 25(4), 622–644. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X221114159