I am a Postdoc in the History of the Physical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, based jointly at the Department of Science Education and Niels Bohr Archive. As a historian of science, I am chiefly interested in the physical environmental sciences such as meteorology, glaciology, and geology of the 20th century. My focus lies in particular on the atmosphere and the cryosphere. More broadly, I have a research background in the material and visual culture of science, and an active interest in the history of contemporary debates about climate science and geoengineering. Previous projects of mine have also centred on episodes in the history of 18th-century Dutch science and electrotherapy.

My current research project investigates the origins and development of the "cryosphere" concept and its associated sciences. This term has gained in prominence over the past four decades, particularly in the climate sciences, but only after a long period of redefinition and neglect. My focus lies on this mid-20th century period, and what it can mean for the current Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences. Concurrently, I am reworking my doctoral dissertation on the history of snowflake science into a scholarly book, tentatively titled The Snowflake in Science: A Long-Term History of a Short-Lived Object. Read more about my snowflake work here.

I completed my doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich, where I was based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Previously, I studied History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Oxford and History at Durham University. Contact links are below!