Polona Tratnik, PhD in Philosophy, is senior researcher at the Institute IRRIS and full Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. A Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Cruz, a pioneering biotechnological artist and author of Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology and the Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Conquest of Body: Biopower with Biotechnology (Springer, 2017) and Hacer-vivir más allá del cuerpo y del medio (Herder, 2013).