Promotion am Promotionszentrum „Sozial- Gesundheits- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften" (SGW)

I am a researcher from Argentina with a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS). I work in the areas of artificial intelligence and ethics, open-source communities and feminist tech collectives, and have expertise in science and technology policy and governance as well as knowledge management. My career has been concerned with understanding the cultural, ethical, political, and socio-economic aspects of complex techno-scientific developments, such as nuclear ore mining, biorefineries, disaster management platforms or artificial intelligence. Currently, I am a research associate in the project INKleSS (Understanding the Importance of Non-Knowledge for Software Engineering on Social-Coding Platforms) led by Prof. Dr. Alena Bleicher, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Leich and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jacob Krüger. With my dissertation I would like to understand dynamics of knowledge/non-knowledge in open-source communities, and how these unfold in different socio-technical assemblages and through diverse social practices. At the same time, I hope to provide input for the development of strategies for better managing non-knowledge in the context of software development teams, particularly in open-source projects.

Supervisor at Harz University of Applied Sciences: Prof. Dr. Alena Bleicher

Supervisor at University of St. Gallen: Prof. Dr. Paula Bialski

Research interests:

• Diversity and Inclusion (DEI) in F/LOSS communities, and more generally in the IT sector.
• Infrastructure, as in tech infrastructure, and the people who make it and sustain it.
• Science and Technology Studies (STS).
• Ethics of care/ care ethics.
• Accountable AI.

Academic background:

• Master of Arts in European Studies on Society, Science and Technology. Maastricht University (the Netherlands)
• Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development. University of Trento (Italy), in consortium with the University of Regensburg (Germany), the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura) in Political Science. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Publikationen

• Krüger, J., Zerweck, X., Martinez Demarco, S., Bleicher, A., & Leich, T. (2025). Non-Knowledge as a New Lens on Software Engineering. FSE Companion ’25. 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Trondheim, Norway. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696630.3728503
• Martinez Demarco, S., & Bleicher, A. (2024). Protocol for a modified meta-narrative review of conceptualisations and meanings of 'programming community' within and across research traditions. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13740342
• Demarco, S. (2024). Infrastructuring an event. FemIT Conf 2021: Gender and Technology in Argentina. In B. Grabher, & I. Lamond (Eds.). Events and Infrastructure: Critical Interrogations (pp. 97–109). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003369165-9
• Martinez Demarco, S. (2023). From digital inclusion to IT appropriation: gendered aspects of appropriation imaginary and practices. GENDER Zeitschrift 15(1), 72–86. https://doi.org/10.3224/gender.v15i1.06
• Martinez Demarco, S., & Schelenz, L. (2022). Diversity and Technology. A Zine. International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14216219
• Martinez Demarco, S. (2019). Empowering women through digital skills in Argentina. A tale of two stories. TATuP, Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis 28(2), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.2.s23
• Martinez Demarco, S.; Pereyra, A. (2019). Instruments shaping policy design. Sectoral Funds and Argentina Innovadora 2020. In R. Arvanitis, D. & O’Brien (Eds.). The Transformation of Research in the South. Policies and outcomes (pp. 33–36). Editions des archives contemporaines, France.  https://eac.ac/articles/2097

Kontakt

E-mail: smartinezdemarco [at] hs-harz [dot] de

Personal E-mail: sol.md [at] disroot [dot] org

PGP Fingerprint: 04BD0D787A820BE1B764C9601435242E52F6F1D0

Personal website: solmartinezdemarco.eu

Orcid: orcid.org/0000-0003-3774-3599