Fahmi Rizki Fahroji is an environmental anthropologist and science and technology studies (STS) scholar who integrates long-term ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and controversy mapping, translating these dynamics into insights for scholars, policymakers, and public audiences.

With eight years of research experience, he examines how knowledge of the subsurface shapes who can claim, extract, and govern underground resources—and how everyday practices of extraction, in turn, reshape that knowledge. He takes crude oil as an analytical vantage point for understanding contested expertise, tracing how knowledge and risk are organized across artisanal well workers, state regulators, and oil companies.

Through this lens, Fahmi maps how claims to the underground move between artisanal and industrial oil fields in Indonesia and interprets these movements in relation to broader shifts in energy governance and environmental toxicity.

He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he has served as a teaching assistant and as a research assistant on the Our Soil project. Before his doctoral studies, he worked in policy and advocacy with Transparency International Indonesia. Across these spaces, Fahmi remains engaged in teaching, writing, and publishing on the politics of knowledge, extraction, and the underground.