Adrien De Sutter is a transdisciplinary researcher and ethnographer, specializing in studying the practices of fundamental physics. He holds advanced degrees in astrophysics, theoretical physics, and the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Germany, his work explores processes of cosmosmaking in and beyond modern cosmology.

De Sutter is critical of the idea that scientific cosmology provides the only viable description of the cosmos, or that there could ever be a single, final theory of the universe as a whole. Instead, he argues, the universe is a more diverse place than physics could ever hope to describe by itself. Indigenous and other non-Western cosmologies, he argues, must stand alongside scientific cosmology to enable us to be what Ursula Le Guin called “realists of a larger reality.”