Randi Heinrichs is a cultural studies scholar specializing in digital cultures and their politics of knowledge. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she works on the project “Smartness as Wealth” examining the promises of wealth embedded in digital twins. In 2023, she completed her PhD on anonymity in the context of personalization and so-called data neighborhoods. Her dissertation received several awards such as the Mitacs Award for Emerging Scholars and the Leuphana Dissertation Award. Since 2025, she has served on the board of the research association stsing. Heinrichs lives in Hamburg and works in Lüneburg.

As of April 2026