Filip Vostal 

research associate

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Filip Vostal received PhD in sociology from the University of Bristol in 2013. He works as a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interests encompass sociology of time, science & technology studies (STS), critical social science, quantum mechanics and/of time, social and cultural dimension of AI/ML and numismatics (notaphily). He is an author of a number of articles about the shifting temporality in/of academia and science, broadly conceived, and author of Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time (Palgrave, 2016) and editor of Inquiring into Academic Timescapes (Emerald, 2021). In the past he ran a project that examined temporality of knowledge production in x-ray free electron laser experiments and explored the epistemic role of speed in new methods of investigation in time-resolved structural biology, namely "single particle imagining" and "serial femtosecond crystallography". Currently, he advances several projects, for example: "Post-Colonial and Post-Democratic Speeds/Accelerations in the Early 21^st Century: New Practices, Philosophical Translations, Wild Imaginaries, (Con)Temporary Im/materialities" He teaches several STS courses at Charles University and Czech Technical University and sits on the editorial board (as a book review editor) of Time & Society. He is a member of EASST, 4S and ISST. 

 Curriculum vitae (September 2025)

Recent publications

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