Faranak’s research examines the dynamic interplay between science, technology, and society, with a particular focus on issues around social inequalities and environmental challenges. Drawing on theory-led and empirically grounded approaches, she collaborates across disciplines to identify opportunities for meaningful, practice-oriented interventions. Her work pays close attention to the politics embedded in data infrastructures, particularly in the development and deployment of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Linked Data, and Personalised Medicine. Faranak is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches aiming to support partnerships across academic, policy, public, and private sectors in addressing urgent societal questions surrounding new scientific and technological developments.

Faranak is currently a Research Fellow in the UNESCO Chair in Science Communication for the Public Good at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at the ANU, a visiting fellow at the Clinical Ethics, Law, and Society (CELS) at the University of Oxford, and a visiting fellow at the department of Medicine at the University of Southampton. 

Before joining CPAS, Faranak was a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, where she contributed to research on the ethical and environmental implications of genomics. She was also a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, where she contributed to exploring the potential of Semantic Linked data for researching health inequalities based on an experiment that applied these technologies for linking the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Great British Class Survey datasets. Her PhD research explored ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding online behavioural tracking and advertising, and experimented with cross-sectoral engagement methods to explore alternative futures for the Web.