Gertrude Saxinger is a researcher and lecturer on social dimensions of natural resource extraction (mining, oil and gas) and Arctic anthropology "ORCID".
at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI.
Saxinger previously worked in textile engineering in South-East Asia and stage costume design/production for theatres in Austria in the 1990s.
[2] Together with her international colleagues from geology, anthropology, geography, political science, sociology and cultural studies, she leads the SSHRC funded research and conversation project Beyond Hot Air - Conversations around Critical raw materials supply for the 'green' transition.
Substantive projects have been with the First Nation of Na-cho Nyäk Dun in Yukon/Canada on the impacts of 20th century colonialism and gold and silver mining,[3] on mobility infrastructures and state-corporate-community relationships in oil regions along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia [4] and on hyper-mobile workforce (FIFO / fly-in/fly-out, rail-in/rail-out) of the oil and gas industries of in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts in Russia.