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Bjorn Nansen is an Associate Professor with the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, at the University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD and a Bachelor's Degree with Honours from the University of Melbourne, along with a Bachelor's Degree from Deakin University. With a background in communication and digital technology studies, Nansen employs qualitative, ethnographic, and digital research methods to explore the social and embodied contexts of interactions with digital technologies, interfaces, platforms, and data, focusing particularly on family settings. His interdisciplinary work examines children's engagement with mobile technologies and social software, household digital infrastructures and their adoption, the design and use of digital memorials, and family data tracking technologies.

Nansen previously held positions in the School of Culture and Communication. He is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. He has authored books such as Young Children and Mobile Media: Producing Digital Dexterity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Death and Digital Media (Routledge, 2018), and Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life (Oxford University Press, 2020). Key publications include "#Funeral and Instagram: death, social media, and platform vernacular" (Information, Communication & Society, 2015, 1061 citations), "Dispelling ageing myths in technology design" (Proceedings of the 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2013, 207 citations), "Posthumous personhood and the affordances of digital media" (Mortality, 2015, 127 citations), "Children's interdependent mobility: compositions, collaborations and compromises" (Children's Geographies, 2015, 126 citations), and "Digital housekeepers and domestic expertise in the networked home" (Convergence, 2015, 100 citations). With over 100 peer-reviewed articles and more than 4350 citations, his contributions have impacted human-computer interaction, child-computer interaction, internet studies, and digital death research.