Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. From 2018 to 2023, she led the team project ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner Asian Borders. Since February 2024, she has been heading a new project titled Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time (2024–2028), both funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In her current research, Agnieszka focuses on small-scale hydropower plants owned by village communities, individuals, families, and traditional organizations managing the commons in the Swiss Alps. She is particularly interested in how these local actors have maintained control over water, land, and infrastructure for decades—and in some cases, centuries. Her work explores how the knowledge and skills required for the long-term maintenance of these decentralized hydropower systems have been cultivated and passed down within families and the communities that have formed around hydropower production.