Alexander I. Stingl is a sociological researcher, academic teacher, and author who is fond of crossing disciplinary boundaries with a research focus on Bioeconomy and Digital Culture and their intersections in the current Global Political Economy. He is a highly qualified expert in transition studies, environmental humanities, and the sociologies of science, culture, cognition, and organization with 13+ years of professional academic experience following inter-disciplinary graduate and undergraduate training in biology, economics, US-American Studies, and philosophy. He is a Senior Lecturer, Director of Postgraduate Studies, and Director of the (forthcoming) MA Program ‘Sustainability and Society’ in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). He is a visiting faculty member of the Paris Institute of Critical Thinking (PICT), and a Fellow at the Global Research Network (GRN), and chairs the Scientific Committee of the project “Juridifying the Anthropocene” (directed by Gilles Lhuilier, Dean of the Law and Economics Faculty of the École Normale Supérieure Rennes, and Béatrice Parance, Professor of Law at Paris 8).