I am currently working on my PhD project, adopting a transdisciplinary approach to investigate how place is practiced and imagined through fossil carbons, focusing on petro-geographies as areas experiencing the spatial imprint of petroleum-industrial activities.

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My research begins in the 75 hectares of land in Ingolstadt formerly home to the ERIAG oil refinery, now owned by Audi and the city of Ingolstadt. I am following how fossil carbons have been practiced within and beyond this site, both imaginatively and materially, and across time. Following the relations of fossil carbons outwards from the Ingolstadt site as nexus includes investigation into Bavarian connections with the American South, in addition to the Transalpine oil pipeline which supplies Bavaria with crude oil, connecting the region with practices and spaces spanning Europe, North Africa, North America and West Asia. 

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My intention in knowing oil differently is to act against the ontology of oil and know fossil carbons as multispecies entanglements, formed through expansive time and the dynamics of capital.