Laureate of the 2025 ‘Oceans – Social Worlds, Living Worlds’ call for proposals, the project ‘Environmental Transitions: Oceanic Worlds and Approaches to Nuclear Power in the Archipelagos (TE MOANA)’, is investigating the environmental consequences of the establishment and operation of the Pacific Experimental Centre (1964–2000) on the marine environment of French Polynesia, and examines the knowledge and perceptions of the ocean as a space of science, memory and struggle in the context of nuclear testing and its legacies. Watch the interview with Benjamin Furst.