Moritz Roemer is currently doing their master’s degree at the Institute for European Ethnography at Humboldt University Berlin. They have previously studied Social Sciences at Humboldt University and Peking University with a focus on the state and governmentality, queer and post-colonial perspectives as well as Necropolitics. Their bachelor thesis questioned how authenticity is constituted in asylum interviews of LGBTQ applicants. The project “Problematizing Heat” is part of a joint student research project called “Overflows of the Anthropocene” which is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ignacio Farías. Further interests include sexuality and gender, particularly sexual health, political geography and feminist technoscience.