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Sabine Höhler

Sabine Höhler, physicist and historian of science, technology, and the environment, is an associate professor of science and technology studies at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Her research addresses the cultural history of modern science and technology, the history of space and globalization, environmental history, and feminist science and technology studies. After her PhD on “Research and mythology in aviation: scientific ballooning in Germany, 1880–1910” (1999), she studied the oceanographical exploration of the deep sea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As part of the interdisciplinary research project “Sustainable Development between Throughput and Symbolism” at Hamburg University, she began her research on technoscientific models for sustainable environments. She was an environmental history fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, scholar in residence at Deutsches Museum in Munich, research associate at the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School “Topology of Technology” at Technical University of Darmstadt, and senior lecturer at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Her habilitation thesis (Darmstadt, 2010), “Spaceship earth: Envisioning human habitats in the environmental age,” explores sufficiency and efficiency ideals in closed life-support systems between 1960 and 1990. The study was published under the title Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960-1990 by Pickering & Chatto (2015).

Ecospheres: Model and Laboratory for Earth's Environment  contributionEnvironing Technology  projectTaking Nature into Account—Historical Perspectives and Paradoxes  contributionSeminar: Valuing Nature  project