NICKI LISA COLE, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Know-Center and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, hosted by the Science, Technology and Society Unit, Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology (Austria). She is a sociologist with expertise in global political
economy, global value chains, and consumer culture, with a focus on the social, environmental, and economic challenges to sustainability in the electronics industry.