Henry Austin is the Program Manager and a Fellow in the STS Program. Previously, he was a Research Associate with the Global Observatory for Genome Editing. Henry holds an A.B. from Harvard College, where he studied Social Studies with a Secondary Field in Computer Science before graduating in 2023.

In the STS Program and the Observatory, his research has focused on the politics of datafication and memory, with a particular focus on the right to be forgotten and the remaking of state sovereignty in technological societies. Henry hopes to attend law school in the future.