Sabine Höhler

I was trained as a physicist and received my PhD in history of science and technology from Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany. I came to Sweden and KTH in 2011 as an associate professor of science and technology studies. My research addresses the earth and environmental sciences from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in a global historical perspective: aviation and atmospheric physics; oceanography and deep-sea exploration; space flight and ecology. My recent work focused on the spaceship as a key metaphor in the late twentieth-century debate over the world’s resources and the future of humankind. Currently I work on a project on the science and the fiction of terraforming and changing concepts of life on Earth.