Nele Wynants is associate research professor at the University of Antwerp’s Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), where she coordinates the Arts & Media Archaeology team. Her research focusses on the interactions between performance, media and science and their overlapping histories. She leads the EU-funded project ‘Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850–1914’ and is series editor of Media Performance Histories (Brepols). Wynants serves on the ARIA Steering Board and is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal for the History of Knowledge.