Andrew Pickering completed a PhD in particle physics before moving into science and technology studies, which he taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before returning to England in 2007 and joining the University of Exeter, where he is now professor emeritus of sociology and philosophy. His research focusses on couplings of the human and the nonhuman. He is the author of Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. He is currently completing a book on our relations with nature and the environment.