Konstantin is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo and the University of Edinburgh. He is part of ANTHUSIA, a multi-disciplinary research project in the Anthropology of Human Security in Africa funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. His project takes up questions of toxic exposure, agricultural production, and knowledge-making related to mould infections of maize in Upper Meru, Kenya. Before his PhD he studied Social Anthropology and Economics at the University of Halle.

Konstantin is interested in knowledge production in human bodies and contexts of toxicity, but also generally in invisible sites, under uncertain conditions and in the future. His research interests include epistemologies, questions of (un)certainty, anthropology of the body and STS.

Together with Miriam Waltz and Ferdinand Okwaro he organized the Workshop “Scientific Subjectivities in Contemporary Africa: Knowledge Making, Scholarly Collaboration and Academic Lives across Difference” at the British Institute for East Africa, Nairobi in 2019.