Sophie Publig is an internet archaeologist and Senior Scientist at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her research moves across aesthetics, digital cultures, and critical posthumanism, analyzing phenomena from meme ecologies to networked subjectivities to internet folklore. Her dissertation The Sympoietic Life of Internet Memes (2023, forthcoming with punctum books) developed an eco-digital framework for analyzing meme culture. She has written Digital Occultism (2026, Aksioma) with Mikkel Rørbo