I joined in spring 2024 Anna Mann's team and her project "(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End" (SNSF Ambizione). My current research focuses on death in and with the digital. I am particularly interested in the trajectory of our personal data at the end of our lives.

I hold a Bachelor's degree in musicology and anthropology (University of Fribourg, 2010-2013), a Master's degree in anthropology (University of Neuchâtel 2013-2016), and a PhD in social anthropology (University of Fribourg 2018-2024). David Bozzini and Francesca Musiani supervised my doctoral thesis, which I defended in January 2024. Entitled 'Les temps de la sécurité informatique: une anthropologie du soin du protocole cryptographique OpenPGP' (The times of computer security: an anthropology of the care of the OpenPGP cryptographic protocol), this thesis focuses on the care and maintenance practices of a cryptographic protocol which many consider as dead while other try to prolong its life. Drawing on and engaging with Science and Technology Studies (STS), maintenance studies and Internet governance studies, I analysed the way in which OpenPGP is developed and maintained by a wide range of players, including but not limited to computer scientists, mathematicians, academics and hackers. In particular, I have analysed the practices involved in the care of computer code, the negotiation of Internet standard specifications and the governance of digital infrastructures.

I’ve been teaching anthropology for Ba and Ma students at the University of Fribourg, University of Neuchâtel and the University of Applied Science for Engineering and Management (HEIG-VD) in Yverdon-Les-Bains. My teaching cover the following topics: digital anthropology, moral anthropology, gender and technology, media sociology, and research methods.

Outside academia, I have a passion for music (accordion, clarinet, percussion, piano, choir) and amateur photography. I particularly enjoy discovering other forms of life around me. Some of my photographs can be seen on my website https://sylvi.ch.