Merlyna Lim is Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Public Engagement in the Consortium of Science, Policy and Outcomes, with a joint appointment in the School of Social Transformation - Justice and Social Inquiry Program at Arizona State University. Lim is also Director of Participatory Media Lab at ASU.
Lim completed her Ph.D. in Science & Technology Studies and Technology & Development in September 2005 (cum laude), at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands.
Her teaching and research interests revolve around mutual shaping of technology and society and political culture of technology, in relations to issues of globalization, democratization, livability and equity.