Filip Vostal

Filip Vostal received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol, UK in 2013. From 2014 he has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Science, Technology, and Society Studies at the Institute of Philosophy CAS. He has published his work in journals such as Time & Society and European Journal of Social Theory. Filip is the author of Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time (2016, Palgrave Macmillan) and currently runs a project that anthropologically investigates temporality of knowledge production in physics (funded by Czech Science Foundation). With Mark Carrigan Filip co-founded international scientific network The Accelerated Academy that comprises of researchers from several institutions (Leiden, Cambridge, Humboldt) who meet once or twice a year. He teaches Sociology of Science & Technology at Charles University and Critical Social Theory at the Anglo-American University in Prague. Filip tweets at @filvos

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