Hoang Viet Cuong Le

Dr. Lauren Reid is a researcher in the social studies of outer space who explores how life off-Earth is imagined and put into practice. Working through multimodal ethnography and curatorial practice, she is particularly interested in how emerging scientific and technological practices of space exploration and habitation reconfigure familiar Earthly ideas of life, relation, and humanity. She has been a Guest Researcher at Leuphana University Center of Methods and holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin, with a dissertation titled 'Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in Thailand'. Her work has been published in edited volumes including 'The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space' (2023) and 'Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives' (2025).