xyz Alexander Peine xyz, PhD xyz

I am a Full Professor of Culture, Innovation and Communication at the Open University of The Netherlands. My research links two pertinent societal developments – (i) population ageing, including the challenges it allegedly poses for care and health systems, and (ii) technological change, including the push towards more interactive and “smarter” technologies. In simple terms, one could say I study what population ageing means for the way we organise and direct technology and innovation, and, vice versa, how technology and innovation have come to shape how we age and how we imagine the future of health and care. My work has expanded the usual drive in this area to think of technologies as interventions, and has developed instead a unique line of research that thinks of ageing, care and health as being co-constituted with technology. Before joining the Open University NL, Alexander was an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the laureate of a prestigious Max Weber post-doctoral fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and a Principal Investigator at Berlin University of Technology..xyzz