Andrew Pickering is internationally known as a leader in the field of science and technology studies. He is the author of Constructing Quarks: A sociological history of particle physics, The Mangle of Practice: Time, agency and science, and Kybernetik und Neue Ontologien, and he is the editor of several collections of research essays, including Science as Practice and Culture and (with Keith Guzik) The Mangle in Practice: Science, society and becoming. He has written on topics as diverse as post-Second World War particle physics; mathematics, science, and industry in the nineteenth century; and science, technology, and warfare in and since the Second World War. His most recent book, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of another future (2010), analyzes cybernetics as a distinctive form of life spanning brain science, psychiatry, robotics, the theory of complex systems, management, politics, the arts, education, spirituality, and the 1960s counterculture, and argues that cybernetics offers a promising alternative to currently hegemonic cultural formations. Growing out of his work on cybernetics, Andrew’s current research focuses on art, agency, the environment, and traditional Chinese philosophy. Andrew has held fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Princeton University, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and, most recently, Institutes for Advanced Study at the Universities of Durham, Konstanz, and Bauhaus (Weimar). With PhDs in physics (London) and science studies (Edinburgh), he moved from Britain to the United States in 1984, and for many years was professor of Sociology and director of an interdisciplinary science, technology, and society graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before moving to the University of Exeter in 2007.