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Dr Jonathan Galka commenced his appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Research Cluster with effect from 15 April 2025.

Dr Galka has a PhD and MA in History of Science from Harvard University. His dissertation examining the 20th-century identification of deep-sea manganese nodules as scientific, political, and economic resources queries how the construction of nodules as a mineral resource frontier imbricated the biological and geological sciences with Cold War and postcolonial ocean law and politics. During 2024–2025, he was a visiting scholar at ARI and with the NTU CCA on its Climate Change and Cultural Loss project. At ARI, he will begin a project on the histories and futures of deep seawater technologies, especially ocean thermal energy conversion.