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Jennifer Gabrys is Chair in Media, Culture and Environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She leads the Planetary Praxis research group and is Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project, Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies, which launched the research platform Smart Forests Atlas in 2022. She also leads the Citizen Sense and AirKit projects, which investigate the use of environmental sensors for new modes of citizen involvement in environmental issues. Both of these projects have received funding from the European Research Council.

Her most recent book on the Citizen Sense project, Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle, was published November 2022 by the University of Minnesota Press, and is available as an open-access publication on Manifold.

She occasionally tweets through @citizen_sense and @PlanetaryPraxis.