Zelda Wenner works as a sociological researcher at the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck. As part of the Collaborative Research Center “Sexdiversity” (SFB 1665) she conducts research at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies and the Sociology of Science.
After completing a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology (Halle), she earned her master’s degree in sociology at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Working in the subproject C02, “Ownership of the Human Body in the Context of Transnational Reproductive Economies” she completed her master’s degree with a thesis on conceptions of bodies and gender in the context of technologically assisted reproduction, with a focus on masculinities.
Since August 2025, Zelda has been a member of the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University, led by Sarah S. Richardson.
In her PhD project, she is undertaking a laboratory ethnography on the production of gender/sex knowledge in molecular biology.
