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Age 44, January 29, 2033
 * Leo Matteo Bachinger **

Leo Matteo Bachinger graduated from RPI's STS program in 2020 and moved on to continue his work on the intersections of public and community activism, science & democracy and governance. Key stations of his academic career included continued collaborations with RPI and the University of Vienna (from which he graduated with a BA in Sociology and a MA in STS in 2015). His work transgressed the boundaries of scientific and political institutions: He collaborated with regional planning as well as governmental agencies in the US and Europe, focussing on deliberative democratic processes around climate science, urban and regional planning and environmental pollutions. Since 2025 he started building an interdisciplinary research hub working on community based research initiatives addressing a variety of topics. The institute is situated on the interface between regulatory science, government bodies and diverse communities, focussed on capacity building and facilitating sustainable action transgressing institutional and organisational bodies. Current work focusses on new open-ended and upstream re-configurations of urban and rural space in changing climates.