Vincent Ialenti is a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University and a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow. His research explores how Finland’s nuclear waste disposal experts endowed uncertain futures with form when developing what will, in the 2020s, likely become the world’s first operational high-level nuclear waste repository. Vincent holds an M.Sc. in law, anthropology, and society from the London School of Economics and is a MacArthur fellow at George Washington University. He has written articles for NPR, Forbes, Nautilus, and other public outlets.