I am a Postdoc in the History of the Physical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, based at the Niels Bohr Archive and Department of Science Education. As a historian of science, I am primarily interested in the physical earth 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 climate science and geoengineering. Previous projects of mine have centred on Dutch natural philosophy and electrotherapy in the eighteenth century.

My current research project focuses on the conceptual origins and development of the "cryosphere" -  a catchall term for the earth's snow, ice, and permafrost - and its associated sciences. This term has gained in prominence since the 1980s, but only after six decades of redefinition and neglect. I explore the history of the concept during those six decades, and what this history means for our current understandings of the 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.