Hi,
I'm Meta (she/her), an interdisciplinarily trained sociologist working on the sociology of science and social theory from a critical global perspective. My research centres on the (self-)governing of science, with a particular focus on global inequalities, colonial legacies, and transnational dynamics.

I am a Senior Researcher at the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where I work in the international, VW Foundation-funded project "Predatory Publishing Practices," together with colleagues in Germany, Poland,  Portugal, Brazil, India and Argentina.

I am interested in questions broadly related to the politics and governing of science. My work asks how research evaluation regimes shape the everyday practices of scholars, how publishing cultures differ across disciplines and regions, and how these dynamics reproduce entrenched institutional and global inequalities — questions I approach through the lens of sociological theory.
Recent outputs include a co-authored article on governing science through research evaluation (OA) in Minerva and a co-authored piece on the conceptual and methodological challenges of studying predatory publishing in Research Evaluation (OA). Together with M. Reinhart, I am also developing a reflexive research agenda on publishing cultures that considers disciplinary differences as well as global asymmetries.

Situated at the intersection of the sociology of science and post- and decolonial thought, my monograph on the research and career practices of Anglo-Caribbean social scientists was published by Bristol University Press in 2025. The book builds on my PhD at the University of Freiburg (supervised by Prof. Manuela Boatcă and awarded summa cum laude).