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Patricia D. Reyes Benavides

Researcher, Lecturer, Writer
📌 Enschede, The Netherlands
✉️ patyt@tutamail.com

publications

  • PhD monograph: Reyes Benavides, P.D. (forthcoming). The Technopolitics of the Climate Movement.
  • Peer-reviewed article: Reyes Benavides, P.D. Technologically Mediated Encounters with Nature. (2024). Ethics and Information Technology. [Link]
  • Book chapter: Reyes Benavides, P.D. and Gertz, N. (2024). ‘Misdaad zonder straaf? De legitimiteit van illegale acties van de klimaatbeweging.’ (Jan Vortsenbosch, Trans.) In Burgerlijke Ongehoorzaamheid. Mazirel Press.
  • Book chapter: Ziliotti, E., Reyes Benavides, P., Gwagwa, A. and Dennis, M., (2023) “Social Media and Democracy.” In The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies; An Introduction. Open Book Publishers.[Link]
  • Article: Reyes, P. and Gertz, N. ( 2023). Crime without Punishment? On the legitimacy of illegal actions from the climate movement. Filosofie en Praktijk. Volume 44, Issue 3/4 [Link]

talks, Workshops, exhibitions

  • Public Talk: “Mobilizing in a Post-Social Media Era” Talk at GOGBOT Festival (September 2025)
  • Moderator: Panel Battle at GOGBOT Festival (September 2025)
  • Workshop speaker: “Co-creating Approaches to the Responsible Use of Emerging Disruptive Technologies,” Utrecht Data School’s conference: Making a Difference: Societal Impact Through Collaborative Research (April 2025)
  • Panelist: “Critical raw materials, decolonial options and possibilities, and philosophy of technology” panel at ESDiT/4TU’s conference: ‘Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology’ (October 2024)
  • Exhibition: “Mediated Encounters with Nature,” Wheatpaste poster wall, ‘Rethinking Ethics, Reimagining Technology: Artistic Explorations,’ at the ESDiT/4TU.Ethics conference (October 2024)
  • Panelist: “Art as an Epistemic Practice” panel at ESDiT/4TU’s conference: Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology (October 2024)
  • Conference Talk: “Reflections from Interculturality and Pluriversality on the Climate Movement,” South African Society of Environmental Philosophy (SASEP) Conference (March 2024)
  • Exhibition:“Nature Matter(s),” Wheatpaste poster wall and projection at Vrijhof, University of Twente (December 2023)
  • Panelist: “Groundwork for an Environmental Philosophy of Technology” panel at Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) Biannual Conference (June 2023)
  • Panelist: “The Truth About Climate Change,” Panel at Dutch Innovation Days (May 2023)
  • Conference talk: “Towards a Critical Use of Internet Platforms in the Climate Movement,” 4S/ESOCITE 2022 (December 2022)
  • Conference talk: “Towards a Critical Use of Internet Platforms in the Climate Movement,” ESDiT Conference 2022 (October 2022)
  • Conference talk: “Internet-enabled Climate Activism Networks, Ontological Conflicts, and the Prospects of a Pluriverse,” Intercultural Ethics & Technology conference. (January 2022)
  • Art installation: “The platform of Truth,” at GOGBOT Festival in collaboration with This Ain’t Rock N’ Roll and Clare Farrell (Extinction Rebellion) (September 2021)
  • Conference talk: “Reconceptualizing ‘Politics’ through Indigenous Philosophies,” It’s Alive!, 4TU.Ethics Biannual Conference (October 2021)
  • Keynote: “Walk the talk – A keynote on Action Research and Intersectionality,” Sustainability Transformation Symposium organized by the University of Twente’s Green Hub (October 2021)
  • Public Talk: “Recalibrating Reality” Opening speech at GOGBOT Festival (September 2021)
  • Conference talk: “Loading New Worlds – Creative uses of digital media to conceive post-anthropocentric societies,” Technological Imaginaries, Society for Philosophy and Technology Biannual Conference (June 2021)
  • Conference talk: “The Post-anthropocentric social and its contracts: Indigenous Place-thought meets digitally mediated climate activism,” Politics of Nature 2021 Conference of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy. (June 2021)
  • Interview: “India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage,” Interview in In Focus (South Asia). (February 2021)
  • Moderation: “Loading New Worlds,” Symposium at The Overkill Festival Online Edition. (December 2020) [Link to livestream]
  • Conference talk: Rethinking the technological mediation of climate action through post-anthropocentric politics,” Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference (November 2020).
  • Public Talk: “Global Networks of Climate Activism,” Presentation at Cinema Obscura/Sickhouse, (March 2020)
  • Photocall: “International Pi Day,” (2019)
  • Exhibition: “Community,” Photography at TANKSTATION. Enschede, The Netherlands. (2018)

academic appointments

  • Research Fellow, Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (Sep 2020 – Present)
  • PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente, Philosophy Section. (Sep 2020 — Present)
  • Researcher, University of Twente, Philosophy Section (Feb — August 2019)

Working experience

  • Mechatronics Consultant (Feb 2020 — Aug 2020) ALTEN Nederland.
  • Columnist and Contributing Writer (2017 — 2018) U-Today. (University of Twente).
  • Senior Design Engineer (2016) Industrias John Deere, México.
  • Design Engineer (2013—2016) Industrias John Deere, México.
  • Automation Engineer (2012—2013) INESFA.

teaching experience

  • Tutor (April – July 2025)
    ‘Ethics of Engineering’
    BSc programmes, TU Eindhoven
  • Guest Lecturer (May 2025)
    PhD course ‘Transformative Research’ Utrecht University & University of Twente
  • Guest Lecturer (October 2024)
    Minor Environmental Values and Sustainable Transformation, University of Twente
  • Lecturer (2021 – 2023)
    Course ‘Technologies in Use’
    MSc Philosophy of Science Technology and Society (PSTS), University of Twente
  • Lecturer (2022)
    Module ‘Philosophy and Communication’
    BSc Communication Science, University of Twente
  • Lecturer (2022)
    Module ‘The Quantified Self’
    BSc Communication Science, University of Twente

education

  • Research Honours Programme (June 2019). Twente Graduate School, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
  • MSc Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (2016—2018) Honors: cum laude. University of Twente, The Netherlands. Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences. (Thesis)
  • BSc Mechatronics Engineering (2008—2012) Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica.

Grants & Awards

  • TGS Award (September 2019)
    Awarded by the Twente Graduate School (University of Twente) for the research proposal ‘Global Networks of Climate Action: Exploring how the Internet mediates the international response to climate change.’ (Press release | Video)
  • TGS Bridging Grant 2019 (October 2018)
    Grant awarded by the Twente Graduate School (University of Twente) for the elaboration of a PhD research proposal.
  • Holland Scholarship (2016—2017)
    Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science from The Netherlands in collaboration with the University of Twente.

community Work

  • TETEM
    • Member of the Supervisory Board / Raad van Toezicht (May 2021 – Present)
  • Tankstation Cultureel Vulpunt
    • Chair of Board / Voorzitter (October 2021 – December 2023)
    • Crew member (August 2018 – Present)

Last Updated: 9 February 2026