Fabian Zimmer

Fabian Zimmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for the History of Technology at Technische Universität Berlin. He works at the intersection of cultural history, environmental history and the history of technology. After studying history and German philology at the universities of Heidelberg and Lund, he was a doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Center and Deutsches Museum in Munich and he was a guest researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Stockholm and at the German Historical Institute in Paris. He received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2020 for a thesis on the PR and film work of hydropower companies in 1950s Europe, which has been published in 2022 with Wallstein-Verlag as Hydroelektrische Projektionen. Eine Emotionsgeschichte der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm.