Vonderau’s research focusses on political and economic developments in Europe after 1990, particularly their material-technological and bodily forms.Her research includes studies of post-socialist transformation processes in Eastern Europe, and of the adoption of EU policies and standards in various local contexts. Vonderau’s current project, Farming Data, Forming the Cloud: The Environmental Impact and Cultural Production of IT Technology, is based on an ethnographic study of the social and environmental effects of the data centre industry in Sweden, investigating the relation between global IT infrastructures and their local sites.