Alessandro Rippa is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. His research concerns infrastructure, global circulations and the environment. Alessandro is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant project "Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene" (2023-2028). He is the author of Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development and Control in Western China (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (2018). Alessandro has been part of the Roadsides editorial board since 2018.