At Utrecht University Karin van Es is Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies, project lead Humanities at Utrecht Data School and part of the steering committee of the focus area Governing the digital society. Her research focuses on the impact of datafication and algorithmization on culture and society. Karin is author of the book The Future of Live (Polity Press, 2016). She is co-editor of the volume The Datafied Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and the special issue "Big Data Histories" (2018) for TMG- Journal for Media History . She has published in outlets such as Television and New Media, Media, Culture and Society, M/C Journal and First Monday.

Karin was visiting fellow at London School of Economics in 2017 and 2018.