Simone Schleper is an assistant professor at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on the entanglement of local (field research) and global (international environmental governance) in the life sciences. Her case studies related to oil include caribou migration research in the area near the Alaska Pipeline, and the diplomat/oil CEO Maurice Strong’s patronage of a solar village near Crestone, Colorado.

Thomas Turnbull is a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. His PhD “From Paradox to Policy: The Problem of Energy Resource Conservation in Britain and America, 1865–1981,” provided the first history of energy resource conservation as both a form of science and policy. He is the co-editor, with Daniela Russ, of Energy’s History: Toward a Global Canon (Stanford University Press, 2025).

Candida Sánchez Burmester is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University in the ERC Synergy “NanoBubbles” project. Previously, she did her master’s internship and thesis in the Managing Scarcity project as part of the Cultures of Art, Science and Technology research master’s program.

Tsai-ying Lu defended her PhD dissertation, “Carbon Continuity: Explaining the Changing Energy Mix of Taiwan’s Power System after the Second World War” at Maastricht University in June 2024. She now works for the Research Institute for Democracy, Society, and Emerging Technology in Taiwan.

Jacob Ward is an historian of science, technology, and neoliberalism, particularly focusing on the United Kingdom. He is currently assistant professor at Maastricht University and PI of the NWO Veni grant, “The Prediction Machine: Futurology, Technology, and Neoliberalism in British Government.”