I am a medical and political anthropologist interested in issues of reproduction, care, and morality. Through ethnographic explorations of narratives and practices of resistance, autonomy, and self-determination in different reproductive contexts, I aim to shed light on the multiple ways in which people question the authority of the state as well as medical and scientific authority when it comes to ideas about the body, gender, and kinship. Based on this, I aim to shed light on the moral negotiations around care relations, and how careproviders and carereceivers perform ethics in different settings.

After doing a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and a Research master’s in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam, I completed my PhD at the University of Zurich in 2022. My PhD research on an alternative birth movement in Bali, Indonesia, critically examined care as a moral practice and looked at how ideas of the natural are shaped and made politically and morally significant in the context of two alternative birth clinics. In 2023, my PhD dissertation was awarded the Jahrespreis by the philosophical faculty of the University of Zurich. My work has been published in Medicine Anthropology Theory, Curare Journal of Medical Anthropology, and Economic an Political Weekly. I am the cofounder of the interdisciplinary research network SwissRepro.