Germain Meulemans is currently doing a joint-PhD at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Liège, funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS-Belgium). His research focuses on how people collaborate with materials and nonhuman organisms in understanding, constructing, and maintaining soils in cities. From this starting point, he investigates the potential relations between knowing and making, or science and engineering in the Anthropocene. He is currently doing fieldwork in and around Paris with ecological engineers engaged in constructing soils from scratch. He is part of the “Knowing from the Inside” project (University of Aberdeen, funded by the European Research Council), and, for 2014, he was an invited PhD student at the newly created Paris Institute for Ecology and Environmental Science. Germain’s main research interests are “new materialisms,” ecological sciences, the anthropology of modernity, knowledge practices, and science fiction.