Curriculum Vitae
Princeton, New Jersey
Education
2025 – present
PhD, History of SciencePrinceton University
2019
MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science and MedicineUniversity of Cambridge
2015
BSc, Physics and PhilosophyNanyang Technological University
Honors
2026
David Edge Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science(with Ian McGonigle) “for an outstanding peer-reviewed article or book chapter in Science and Technology Studies.”
Academic Publications
2025
Pandian, S., & McGonigle, I. “Engineering Trust in Singapore's Covid-19 Response.”East Asian Science, Technology and Society 19(3), 393–416.
2025
Chang, J-H., & Pandian, S. “The Art of Enclosure.”Limn 12, 16–23.
2025
Gül, Z., Harb, J. I., Shaik Ali, M., & Pandian, S. “Doing STS Now: Of Hackers and Angels in Technoscience.”Science, Technology, & Human Values 50(1), 3–11.
Non-academic Writing
2023
Pandian, S. “The Bumpy Ride to Making Crash Helmets Mandatory.”BiblioAsia 19(3), 4–9.
2021
Pandian, S., & McGonigle, I. “Singapore Country Report.”In S. Jasanoff et al. (Eds), 84–88. Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge, Politics: Interim Report. NY: Schmidt Futures.
Fellowships and Grants
2026
Project funding, M. S. Chadha Center for Global India
2026
Project funding, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
2026
Grant-in-aid, American Institute of Physics
2025 – 2027
President's Fellowship, Princeton University
2023
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship, National Library Board (Singapore)
2018 – 2019
Gates Cambridge Scholarship, University of Cambridge
Talks and Conference Presentations
2026
History of Science Society annual meeting“An Instrument which Tells us what the Body Feels": The Kata-Thermometer and the Measurement of Comfort
2024
National Archives of Singapore [invited talk]Early Histories of Computing in Singapore 1935–1970
2024
Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meetingStandards under Fire: The 2022 Qatar World Cup's Migrant Workers and the Institutional Invisibilization of Thermal Harm
2023
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship public lecture“Prosperity through Quality and Reliability": The Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR) and the Making of a Quality-Conscious Nation
2022
Science and Democracy Network annual meetingProtean Trust and the Singaporean Authoritarian Solution
2021
Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meetingContentious Management: Singapore's Mechanisms for Pandemic Control and Enclosure