Cyrus Mody is an historian of recent science and technology, specifically the applied physical sciences in the United States since 1965. He studies the commercialization of academic research, the longue durée of responsible research and innovation (RRI), and the technopolitics of scarcity in the long 1970s.
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Odinn Melsted obtained his PhD in history in 2020 from the University of Innsbruck for a dissertation on geothermal energy in Iceland. After a postdoc in the Managing Scarcity project, looking at oil actors’ environmental diplomacy in the 1970s he joined Maastricht University as an assistant professor in fall 2024.
Jelena Stankovic has a BA and MA in History, as well as an MA in European studies on Society, Science and Technology from Maastricht University. Since 2020 she has been a PhD candidate in the Managing Scarciy project, focusing on the history of oil firms involvement in solar energy.
Michiel Bron obtained a master’s in history and philosophy of science from Utrecht University before becoming a PhD candidate in the Managing Scarcity project. He defended his dissertation on the surprisingly long history of oil and nuclear energy in January, 2025 and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Maastricht University.
Hein Brookhuis completed his PhD at KU Leuven in 2024 with a dissertation on the history of (and co-funded by) the Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK CEN). A postdoctoral stint at the University of Amsterdam resulted in ASML and Dutch Physics/ASML en de Nederlandse natuurkunde (AUP, 2025). His postdoc with Managing Scarcity will look at energy debates in the Low Countries in the 1970s and ’80s.
Managing Scarcity 