I am a Postdoc in the History of the Physical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, based jointly at the Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education. As a historian of science, I am primarily interested in the physical environmental sciences, such as meteorology, glaciology, and geology. More broadly, I have active research interests in the visual culture of science, aesthetics of science, and 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 conceptual origins and development of the "cryosphere" -  the catchall term for the earth's snow, ice, and permafrost - 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 the mid 20th century, and what this history can means for the subsequent rise in prominence of cryospheric science. 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!