Nicholas Stücklin

Nicholas Stücklin works at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne. He is writing a thesis on the relationship between humans and animals in the Life Sciences, and more specifically about the metamorphosis of the prairie vole, a North American rodent described as monogamous and bi-parental in zoology and brain science. He has also worked on the politics of compassion and on emotions as a tool of persuasion in organ donation in a research program at the National Research Pole in Affective Sciences. Alongside Emilie Bovet, he is co-president of STS-CH, an association that seeks to promote the social studies of science in Switzerland, by organising conferences and symposia between researchers.