Siggie Vertommen

Sigrid Vertommen is conducting postdoctoral research on the political economy of global fertility chains between Israel/Palestine, Ukraine (egg donation) and Georgia (surrogacy) at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University. She is particularly interested in understanding women's role and participation in the bio-economy as egg vendors and surrogates through the lens of reproductive labour. This research builds further on Sigrid's PhD research on the political economy of assisted reproduction in Israel/Palestine, in which she addressed the multiple ways in which reproductive technologies, including IVF, Pergonal, child removals, sperm smuggling, egg donation and transnational surrogacy, have been imagined, materialised and coproduced in Israel/Palestine, at the crossroads of ongoing histories of settler colonialism and biocapitalism.Sigrid is also active in the feminist and Slow Science movement in Belgium.