Dr Jonathan Galka is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Research Cluster in the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Galka holds a PhD and MA in History of Science from Harvard University. During 2024–2025, he was a visiting scholar with NTU CCA for the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss research project. At ARI, he is working on the histories and futures of deep seawater technologies, especially ocean thermal energy conversion. His dissertation examined the 20th-century identification of deep-sea manganese nodules as scientific, political, and economic resources and how the construction of nodules as a mineral resource frontier imbricated the biological and geological sciences with Cold War and postcolonial ocean law and politics. As a member of the Deep Currents Collective, Dr. Galka contributes to policy and curatorial interventions centering alternative modes of imagining seabed and deep-sea governance.
Jonathan Galka
Dr Jonathan Galka is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Research Cluster in the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Galka holds a PhD and MA in History of Science from Harvard University. During 2024–2025, he was a visiting scholar with NTU CCA for the Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss research project. At ARI, he is working on the histories and futures of deep seawater technologies, especially ocean thermal energy conversion. His dissertation examined the 20th-century identification of deep-sea manganese nodules as scientific, political, and economic resources and how the construction of nodules as a mineral resource frontier imbricated the biological and geological sciences with Cold War and postcolonial ocean law and politics. As a member of the Deep Currents Collective, Dr. Galka contributes to policy and curatorial interventions centering alternative modes of imagining seabed and deep-sea governance.
