CB is associate professor at the department of Anthropology, Amsterdam University. His is the principal investigator of the ERC project ‘Worlds of Lithium’ (WOL) https://worldsoflithium.eu/
During the last 10 years, he has been working at the interface of Social Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and Mental Health. Among other objectives, his ERC project is an attempt to overcame the existing gap in between understandings of ‘planetary health’ and ‘mental health’. Through anthropological research in Chile, China, and Norway, his team studies the role lithium has in the design of decarbonization strategies implemented through the electrification of transport.