Current Research Areas: environmental pollution; biotechnology & bioremediation; human-microbe relations; island ecologies; sensing; metabolism; postcolonial environments; South Korea & East Asia
Danhue is an environmental geographer interested in pollution, biotechnology, and multispecies metabolic relations. Her research follows the enrolment of microbial organisms as technologies for managing human and environmental health, with a focus on bioremediation in East Asia. Her current research on Jeju Island, South Korea, engages interdisciplinary dialogues on bioengineering, environmental governance, and the politics of contamination and remediation, attending to how laboratory-based and vernacular engineering practices rework microbial communities and human-environment health across the island’s interlinked terrestrial and aquatic ecologies.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Danhue worked as a climate-health researcher examining the interactions between climate change and pathogenesis, and the health impacts of air pollution and heat. She holds an MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, where she conducted research on aquacultural waste, fermentation-based recycling, and the olfactory/sensory politics of environmental remediation in South Korea. Danhue likes fermenting, diving, and thinking about bioart, and is a corn and insect enthusiast.