is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg. Her main research areas are:Law and Its Knowledge; Dispositifs of Security; the Future of Algorithms; the Power and Truth; Vulnerability and Political Theory. She is co-editor of Governmentality: Current Issues and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2010) and has published in international journals like Cultural Studies, Foucault Studies, Leiden Journal of International Law, Policing & Society, Punishment & Society, Security Dialogue, Surveillance & Society, Theoretical Criminology.