Julia Velkova is associate professor of media and communication studies at the Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, and a Profutura Scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. Her work explores the intersection of digital infrastructure and energy politics, and the end of life of large-scale communication networks. She is co-editor of Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical relations (with Lisa Parks and Sander De Ridder, 2023) and founder and co-director of the DataLab at Linköping University.