Curriculum Vitae

Princeton, New Jersey

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Education

2025 – present
PhD, History of Science

Princeton University

2019
MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

University of Cambridge

2015
BSc, Physics and Philosophy

Nanyang 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

2024
"Prosperity Through Quality and Reliability": SISIR and the Making of a Quality Conscious Nation

Chapters on Asia

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 meeting

Standards 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 meeting

Protean Trust and the Singaporean Authoritarian Solution

2021
Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meeting

Contentious Management: Singapore's Mechanisms for Pandemic Control and Enclosure