Main research interests:

History of technology, environment and science, history of materials, history of infrastructure, Anthropocene.

CV:

Dr. Martin Meiske is a postdoctoral researcher and research associate at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and a lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His studies and various research stays took him to Potsdam, Zurich, Bern, Buenos Aires, Washington D.C. and Munich, where he received his PhD in 2019 from the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society/LMU. In 2021, he published his dissertation "The Birth of Geoengineering" with Wallstein. Published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2022, also the edited volume "Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Nineteenth Century" (co-edited with Eike-Christian Heine).

Current projects:

Cultures and Costs of Maintenance. The rise of creosote and its precarious legacy.

[Postdoctoral Project / DFG - Own position at the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum, Munich]

For more information on Dr. Martin Meiske's research & teaching and a detailed CV, please visit his website.