• Cultural history of technology
• Economic and social history
• Infrastructures, transport and technological innovation
• Human-animal relations, Human Animal Studies:

  • Raw Material, Material, Agent: The Production of Animal Byproducts and Their Use in Industry, Technology, and Medicine (ca. 1890-1970)

  • Technological and economic perspectives of a human-animal history of digital societies - workshop project

• Migration, gender and labor market
• History of psychiatry, history of eugenics and racism

Recent publications

• Switzerland as a laboratory for fiscal federalism and global giscal governance, in: economic sociology - the european electronic newsletter, 21:2, March 2020, pp. 15-25 (https://econsoc.mpifg.de/)
• Market Justice and Tax (In)Justice. International ideas of order and the Swiss fiscal worlds, in: Günther Schulz (ed.): Ordnung und Chaos - Trends und Brüche, (VSWG-Beihefte), Stuttgart 2019, pp. 187-204.
• Flores, Juan, Gisela Hürlimann, Luigi Lorenzetti, Hans-Ulrich Schiedt (eds.), Numbers and Texts. The Place of Quantitative Approaches in Economic and Social History (Swiss Yearbook of Economic and Social History, vol. 33), Zurich: Chronos 2019.
• Huerlimann, Gisela, W. Elliot Brownlee, Eisaku Ide (eds.), Worlds of Taxation. The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution since 1945, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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• October 2019-September 2020: Substitute Professor for Technological Cultural Studies at the Department of History of KIT.
• 2019/2020 Lectureships at the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland) and Bern (Switzerland)
• April-September 2017 substitute professorship for history of technology at the TU Berlin
• 2014-2020 Senior Assistant at the Chair of History of Technology at the ETH Zurich
• 2012-2015 Senior Assistant at the Research Center for Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich
• August 2011- January 2012 Senior assistant, coordinator of the doctoral level at the Department of History of the University of Zurich
• 2009-2012 Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the research project: The Social Policy of the Tax State: Redistributive Effects of Swiss Tax Policy 1959-1993
• April 2006-December 2008 Coordinator and co-author of Economic and Social History Online (e-learning platform), University of Zurich
• 2006 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Zurich
• 2003-2006 Scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the research project: Innovation Processes and Institutional Change in Public Companies in Switzerland - the Example of the SBB, 1970- 2000
• 2002-2006 Research assistant / project manager at the Swiss Federal Archives, Bern
• 2001-2002 Research assistant in the project: Coercive measures in psychiatry and by social authorities 1870 - 1970 (Canton Zurich)
• 2000 Licentiate in General History, Social and Economic History and Spanish Literature at the University of Zurich

• December 2016-February 2017 Guest Scholar, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego
• July 2015-September 2015 Visiting Professor, Graduate Institute of Economics, Kyoto University
• June 2014-March 2015 Fellow for Economic and Social History, German Historical Institute, Washington DC
• 2004 Grant of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT) for the research report: Zwangsmassnahmen in der Zürcher Psychiatrie, 1870 - 1970 (together with Marietta Meier and Brigitta Bernet)

• Board member of the Swiss Society for Economic and Social History SGWSG-SSHES

• Member of the editorial board of traverse - Zeitschrift für Geschichte / revue d'histoire

• Member of the DFG network Doing Debt / Schulden machen

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the History of Technology Conferences of the Iron Library Foundation

• Member of the Swiss Society for History (SGG), the European Business History Association EBHA and the Society for Corporate History GuG e.V.