Ayush Shukla (He/Him) is a PhD candidate at the Athena Institute at Vrije University Amsterdam. Before relocating to Amsterdam, he worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society at the University of Augsburg (Germany) in an interdisciplinary research project, META: ethical, legal, and social aspects of mHealth, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Building upon the scholarly work in Science and Technology Studies (STS), (Bio)Ethics, and Responsible (Research) Innovation, his interdisciplinary empirical research focuses on unpacking the discourse of responsibility and ethics in health and medical technology development. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from the University of Delhi, India, and a master’s in Responsibility in Science, Engineering, and Technology (RESET) from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.
In the MELOMANES project, Ayush will work on the nanomedicine-society interface and investigate societal aspects of nanomedicine research. Using the R(R)I framework with a reflexive evaluation approach, his individual project will explore how to build the reflexive and responsive capacity in the context of nanotechnology laboratory work, specifically focusing on the development of multifunctional nanoparticles.
