Merlyna Lim is Assistant Professor of the Consortium of Science, Policy and Outcomes and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University.

Her teaching and research interests revolve around mutual shaping of technology and society and political culture of science, technology, and cities, in relations to issues of globalization, democratization and (in)equity.

Lim holds the following awards: Annenberg Networked Publics Research Fellowship (2005-2006), Henry Luce Southeast Asia fellowship (2004), Oxford Summer Doctoral Fellowship (2003), NWO Wotro Fellowship (2003-2005), and ASIST International Paper Contest Winner (2002) and has given more than 50 invited lectures and presentations in various places in the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Asia.