Emilia Tikka`s current research focuses on re-designing human-nature-technology relations in technoscientific discourses and practices, focusing on synthetic biology and genome-editing technologies. She problematizes the current production of the ‘human condition’ by juxtaposing transhumanism and feminist posthumanism. Her research on design methods focuses on re-framing speculative design as an inclusive approach, introducing plural voices in technoscientific discourses and practises.

Next to conducting her PhD at Aalto, she is also a Research Associate at Tampere University, Department of New Social Research on biomedical technologies. She is also an Artist in Residence in EU project Art4med at the Finnish Bioart Society (2021-2022). Her former affiliations include: Visiting Scholar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Artist in Residence at the laboratories of Max-Delbrück-Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.