Hello!

Hello! I’m a digital anthropologist researching how people form relationships — both with one another and with intelligent technologies.

 

My work focuses on human–AI intimacy: from therapeutic encounters and emotional care to romantic relationships with AI companions and technologies that reshape memory and grief. I’m particularly interested in how generative AI is reconfiguring ideas of the self, empathy, and what it means to relate to others in increasingly mediated worlds.

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My research is grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork across Brazil, Cuba, the United States, Guyana, Panama, Mexico, Spain, and the UK. Alongside academia, I have spent over a decade working in the technology industry as a consultant, contributing to the design of digital systems and bringing anthropological insight into how technologies are built and used.

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I am a Lecturer in AI in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, and previously held academic positions at KU Leuven, UCL, the Alan Turing Institute, and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland.

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My first monograph, published by University Press of Florida in 2023, was nominated for the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists First Book Prize and the Society for Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize.

 

I have also been a finalist for the BBC New Generation Thinker Award, and regularly contribute to public discussions on digital culture through radio, television, and festival appearances.