Ryan Wittingslow is a research fellow at the Australian National University's HASS Digital Research Hub (HDRH), where he works on the socio-technical foundations of digital research infrastructure.
His recent research sits at the fertile delta connecting design studies, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies. He is the author of What Art Does: Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk About Art (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and Design Function: How Objects Succeed and Fail (under contract with Bloomsbury).
From 2016 to 2025 he held positions at the University of Groningen, most recently as associate professor. He remains an adjunct fellow at the University of Groningen. From September 2022 to February 2024 he was a Humboldt research fellow at TU Darmstadt, and from September 2022 to January 2025 he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Philosophy of the City Journal.
He holds a PhD in art history and philosophy from the University of Sydney (2014), where he was also an HDR affiliate in the School of Art, Communication & English from 2022 to 2025.