Projekt: A02
Universitätsstr. 150/ GB 8/136
44801 Bochum

0234/32-20649
leman.celik@rub.de

10|2022: 
Ruhr-University Bochum – Research Assistant/ PhD; Subproject: „Virtuelle Informationsinfrastrukturen: Das Datenzentrum als Infrastrukturierer Visualität, Operativität, Logistik “

11|2016 – 09|2022:
Isik University – Research Assistant; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

02|2022 – 09|2022:
M.A. Istanbul Technical University; Science, Technology and Society

08|2018 – 02|2022:
PhD- Boğaziçi University Modern Turkish History (Coursework completed)

09|2012 – 08|2018:
M.A. Yıldız Technical University - Political Science and International Relations (M.A. Thesis: „Criminalization of Urban Poor Through Urban Transformation in Turkey: In the Case of Sarıgol District- Istanbul“)

09|2011 – 06|2012:
Istanbul University - Pedagogical Formation

12|2009 – 07|2010:
Umeå Universitet – Sociology; Erasmus scholarship

09|2008 – 06|2012:
B.A. Istanbul University -Sociology

Çelik, L., Laser, S., & Sørensen, E. (2026, forthcoming). Across the Layers: How data infrastructures link knowledge practices and planetary matter. Special issue of Science and Technology Studies (guest editors). https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/689

Sørensen, E., Laser, S., & Çelik, L. (2026, forthcoming). Planetary scientific knowledge: Shifting from social to planetary studies of scientific knowledge. Science and Technology Studies.

Çelik, L., Laser, S., Sørensen, E., & Abels, S. (2026, forthcoming). Staying with the planet: The university that tried to reckon with ecological reality, challenged excessive data infrastructures, and nurtured a few alternatives not planned for. transcript Verlag. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7819-2/staying-with-the-planet/

Çelik, L., & Sørensen, E. (2026, forthcoming). Scientific engagements with data infrastructures and their planetary matter. In: Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft 121(3).

Ojala, M., & Çelik, L. (2026). Büro. In P. Breil & F. Sprenger (Eds.), Virtuelle Universität – Geistes- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Zugänge. transcript Verlag.

Çelik, L., Ojala, M., & Pittroff, F. (2026). Literaturverwaltung. In: P. Breil & F. Sprenger (Eds.), Virtuelle Universität – Geistes- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Zugänge. transcript Verlag.

Abels, S., Çelik, L., Laser, S. & Sørensen, E. (2024). A good enough Data Centre? In: Biørn-Hansen, A et al (2024). Liminal Excavations: A zine that explores alternative visions, ideas and critiques on the topic of sustainability and ICT. Sustainable Futures Lab. https://doi.org/10.21428/57a7f7a7.5d685a20

RUSTlab, Amelang, K., Asai, R., Çelik, L., Eggel, R., Galanova, O., Laser, S., Ojala, M., Pittroff, F., Sørensen, E., Werner, L. (2024). Please Go Away... We're Reading: A Practice Approach to a Taken-forGranted Academic Craft. On_Culture 16. https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2024.1415

Çelik, L. (2024). Bell, virtual. In: Vokabular des Virtuellen (pp. 39–41). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839472071-009

Stefan Laser, Anne Pasek, Estrid Sørensen, Mél Hogan, Mace Ojala, Jens Fehrenbacher, Maximilian Gregor Hepach, Leman Çelik, Koushik Ravi Kumar (2022). “The environmental footprint of social media hosting: Tinkering with Mastodon”.  EASST Review, Volume 41(3). https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/

Workshops and Conferences

Çelik, L., Dörre, R., Kleinfelder, C., & Schmiedel, A. (2025, September). ECF conference: Reflecting virtuality (Conference; role: organiser). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/ecf-conference-reflecting-virtuality-24--25-09-2025

Project A02 (SFB 1567 – Virtual Lifeworlds). (2024, November). Nachhaltige Datenpfade: Digitale Infrastrukturen in der Wissenschaft (Workshop report; role: organiser). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/nachhaltige-datenpfade-digitale-infrastrukturen-in-der-wissenschaft-05--07-11-2024---ein-bericht

Project A02. (2024, December). Umwelt der Daten – Daten der Umwelt (Workshop;organiser). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/umwelt-der-daten---daten-der-umwelt-02-12-2024

Çelik, L., Laser, S., Sørensen, E., & Werner, L. (2023, November). Knowledge production, data infrastructures and planetary matter (Workshop; organised by the authors). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/knowledge-production-data-infrastructures-and-planetary-matter

Çelik, L., Eichwalder, M., Meyer, R., & van Haaren, S. (2023, November). Growing virtuality (ECF conference; organised by the authors). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.virtuelle-lebenswelten.de/blog-post/growing-virtuality

Project Area A: Infrastructures. (2023, April). Materiality/immateriality of infrastructures (Workshop; organiser). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://www.sfb1567.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/blog-post/materiality-immateriality-of-infrastructures

Çelik, L., Laser, S., Sørensen, E., & Werner, L. (2023, February–March). Across the layers: Scientific knowledge production, planetary resources, and data centres (Online workshop series; organised by the authors). Ruhr University Bochum, SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten. https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/across_layers/

Çelik, L. (2023, November). New technologies, data infrastructures and their effects (Seminar; facilitator). Ideenwerkstatt e.V. & Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Willebadessen, Germany.

Çelik, L. (2019). Writing society: Ethics and politics of research in precarious times (Symposium and writing workshop). University of Kent, Centre for the Study of Crime, Justice and Security (CDPR) & Sabancı University, Istanbul.

Talks, Panels & Conference Presentations

Çelik, L. (2025, November). Data infrastructures, ecology, and everyday scientific practices: Materials science research (Oral presentation). STS Türkiye 2025 Conference – Technotopias: Imaginaries of the past, present, and future, HECAS – Hekimbaşı Center for Advanced Studies, Istanbul, Türkiye.

RUSTlab. (2025, March). Rusting through academic boundaries (Oral presentation with Fabian Pittroff). Diffracting the Critical STS Hub 2025, Berlin, Germany.

Çelik, L. (2025, March). Through the eye of a pigeon: From life in the lab to data (Poster presentation). Diffracting the Critical STS Hub 2025, Berlin, Germany.

Pittroff, F., Ojala, M., & Çelik, L. (2024). Transforming data practices in the humanities: Virtual research environments revisited (Panel; co-organiser). EASST4S 2024 Conference, Panel P261, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://easst.net/conference/easst4s2024/easst4s-2024-conference-programme/#14335

Çelik, L. (2024, July). Infrastructures of scientific epistemologies: Data practices and knowledge production (Workshop presentation). KIT–ITAS Graduate Summer School, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.

Çelik, L. (2024, Summer term). Data travel: Where, how, when..? (Lecture). RUSTlab Lecture Series (11th round), Ruhr University Bochum.

Çelik, L., Laser, S., & Sørensen, E. (2024, March). Planetary data (Panel). LEAKAGE: Inaugural Conference of stsing e.V., TU Dresden, Germany.

Çelik, L. (2024, February). Data flows, data stops – Exploring methods for researching (with) data: Data journey in EEG research (Workshop talk). Frankfurt University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Çelik, L., & Sørensen, E. (2023, October). Everyday scientific data practices and their planetary matter (Oral Presentation). 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW), Dortmund, Germany. https://www.dgekw-kongress.de/programm/mi-04-10-2023/

SOMDER (Sociology Alumni Association-Turkey) Board Member

ODITORYUM Critical Social Science Journal (Turkey) Editor

STS TURKEY Member