Cansu Güner is a postdoctoral researcher in the Science and Technology Policy Research Group. She previously earned her Master's degree in International Relations from Koç University in 2013 and completed her doctoral degree at the Technical University of Munich, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, in December 2023.
With a PhD in Science and Technology Studies, her research interests focus on advancing evidence-based organizational change in governance, decision-making, and innovation. Her work examines how informal decision-making processes shape organizational outcomes, particularly in high-stakes domains such as innovation, hiring, promotion, and funding, where informal governance plays a central role.
Her doctoral dissertation explores the co-shaping of gender and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on new forms of living practices in entrepreneurial techno-cultures (summa cum laude). On December 06, 2024, Cansu Güner received the prestigious "Freunde der TUM" Award in recognition of her exceptional doctoral dissertation. She is currently working on a postdoctoral project that designs, implements, and evaluates gender-awareness training for members of hiring, tenure, and funding committees, with the goal of strengthening consistent and evidence-informed decision-making.
Cansu is affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) at UC Berkeley, the STS Hub at San Francisco State University, and the Joachim Herz Stiftung.
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- Science and Technology Studies
- Evidence-Based Organizational Change and Informal Governance
- Organizational Decision-Making in High-Stakes Contexts
- Innovation Governance and Evaluation Processes
- Hiring, Promotion, and Funding Practices
- (Re)configuring Entrepreneurship
- Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
- Tech Cultures
- Güner, C. (2024). The Mutual Shaping of Gender and Entrepreneurship in Co-Living Spaces. Doctoral Dissertation. Technical University of Munich.
- Antonakaki, Melpomeni; French, Jade Elizabeth; Guner, Cansu (2018). Realising Sara Ahmed’s ‘feminist snap’: Voices, embodiment, affectivity; Ephemera Journal.
- Summer term 2026 Lecturer, Gender and Diversity in Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2025/6 Lecturer, Gender and Diversity in Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2025 Lecturer, STS Methods for AI in Society, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2025 Lecturer, Project Week: Hackathon - Hacking TUM for Diversity!, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2025 Lecturer, Gender and Diversity in Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2024/5 Lecturer, Project Week: Hackathon - Hacking TUM for Diversity!, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2024 Lecturer, Gender and Diversity in Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2023/4 Lecturer, Gender and Diversity in Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2023 Lecturer, Telling Responsible Stories–Telling Stories Responsibly, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2022/3 Lecturer, Living in NatureCulture Worlds. Or: How to Care in the Anthropocene?, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2021/2 Lecturer, STS 1 Tutorial: Practices and Politics of Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich
- Winter term 2020/1 Lecturer, STS 1 Tutorial: Practices and Politics of Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
- Winter term 2018/9 Lecturer, STS O: Basic Ideas and Concepts of Science and Technology Studies, Technical University of Munich.
- Summer term 2018 Lecturer, Methods in STS, Technical University of Munich
- “Gender Awareness Training as a Feminist STS Intervention?” 10th STS Italia Conference. 11–13, June 2025, Milan.
- “We are like a family here” : Tracing the Family-like Social Ties in Entrepreneurship. 22nd Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research (IECER), 18–20, September
- 2024, Innsbruck.
- Mobilizing Entrepreneurial Networks in Bay Area and Munich. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conference, 16–19, July 2024, Amsterdam.
- Gatekeeping of Entrepreneurial Living. 22nd Annual STS Conference Graz 2024, 6-8, May 2024, Graz.
- Hack the House: Reconfiguring Domesticity in Co-Living Spaces. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Conference, 6–9, July 2022, Madrid.
- The Entreprenurialization of Domesticity: Home Automation in Co-Living Spaces. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology / The Society for Social Studies of Science Joint Conference (EASST/4S Joint Conference), 18–21, August 2020, Prague.
- The Co-Shaping of Gender and Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. San Francisco State University STS Hub, 7, February 2020, San Francisco.
- A Situational Analysis of Co-living Spaces. Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, & Society, UC Berkeley, 12, November 2019, Berkeley.
- Weekly Planner Digitizer: Domestic Technologies in Hybrid Spaces. The Society for Social Studies of Science Conference (4S Conference), 4–7, September 2019, New Orleans.
- Reconfiguring the Engineer: Comparative Analyses on German and Turkish STS Curricula. With Onculer Yayalar, Emine. The Society for Social Studies of Science Conference (4S Conference), 4–7, September 2019, New Orleans.
- New Modes of Working and Living in Entrepreneurship: Gendering of Co-living Spaces [transl.]. STS Turkey 2018 Conference, 10-11, September 2018, Ankara.
- Revisiting the Public and the Private: From Separate Spheres to Co-living Spaces. 7th STS Italia Conference, 14–16, June 2018, Padova.
- Gendered Networks: The Case of Industrial Start-ups in Munich. 17th Annual STS Conference Graz 2018, 7-8, May 2018, Graz.