Amanda Lagerkvist is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Core Fellow at HCAS, the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Lagerkvist is principal investigator of the Uppsala Informatics and Media Hub for Digital Existence. As Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2014-2018), she founded the field of existential media studies. She is the author of Existential Media: A Media Theory of the Limit Situation (2022), and she heads the WASP-HS project “BioMe: Existential Challenges and Ethical Imperatives of Biometric AI in Everyday Lifeworlds” (2020-2024).