Elena Bougleux is associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Bergamo and teaches anthropology of science in the PhD program of the Research Center on Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity (CE.R.CO). After her degree in theoretical physics, a PhD in general relativity (University of Florence and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam), and an MA in cultural and gender studies (University of Florence), her research interests have focused on the epistemological implications of strategies of knowledge construction according to a constructivist and multicultural perspective. After a scholarship in Einstein Year 2004/05, she collaborated again with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2014. Her research makes use of ethnographic and visual methodologies, and shaped her work as a member of the Gender and Intercultural Studies Laboratory (University of Florence, 2003–07), and as coordinator of the Workshop on Migration and Urban Ethnography (University of Bergamo, 2009). Recent work focuses on the processes and practices of applied research as performed by the research and development (R&D) departments of multinational corporations. Her ethnographic fieldwork is based in the Indian R&D division of a US-based corporation and concentrates on the strategies of resistance and appropriations enacted by local actors in order to modify or accomplish the corporate policy of expansion in emerging contexts.