Yuti Ariani Fatimah is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Smart Forests project. She has a PhD in science and technology studies from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands where she investigated the theoretical and practical aspects of power and agency in Indonesian biofuel projects. Yuti is an interdisciplinary scholar with training in mathematics, development studies, and innovation science, and experience with groups involved with topics ranging from smart cities to ecologies.
Prior to Cambridge, she worked as a Research Fellow in the Coupled Human and Natural Systems lab in Nanyang Technological University. Her research focused on the relationship between ecology and society through the case of Indonesian peatland restoration programs. For this research, she collaborated with various stakeholders, including international and regional non-governmental organizations, companies, local groups, and researchers.
Apart from academia, Yuti has experience in consultancy and journalism. She supported the Indonesian government in developing a system dynamics model on the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and poverty, and assisted Indonesian cities in smart city projects. Her interest in the relationship between science and society also led her to become a senior researcher in an online news website where one of her responsibilities was to combat fake news.
Her non-linear paths have been informed by her engagement with human, non-human and marginalized actors, with a focus on the alignments and struggles that they can materialize across these actors.
