Petra Löffler is a media and cultural studies scholar and since 2020 professor for theory and history of contemporary media at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. She has held professorships at the University of Siegen, the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Humboldt University Berlin and was senior fellow at Bauhaus University Weimar and Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her research focusses on media ecology, contemporary media practices, decolonizing methodologies, and oceanic media. Recent publications: Bilder verteilen. Fotografische Praktiken in der digitalen Kultur (2018, co-authored with Winfried Gerling and Susanne Holschbach); Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene (2021, co-authored with Réka Patrícia Gál); Records of Disaster. Media Infrastructures and Climate Change (2022, co-authored with Jakob Claus).

studied Media Studies and Philosophy at the Universities of Bochum and Weimar. He was research assistant with the department of »Sinne – Technik – Inszenierung« at Vienna University (2007–2010) and Junior Fellow at the international research center on cultural studies IFK, Vienna (2010–2012). He has since been postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen. His research focus is on the history of knowledge in media studies, on the research history of 18th-century electricity and concepts of the future.