Christer Nordlund
Torgny Segerstedt Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of History of Science and Ideas, Umeå University
Christer Nordlund received his Ph.D. in History of Science
and Ideas from Umeå University in 2001. His
doctoral dissertation,
Det upphöjda landet: vetenskapen, landhöjningsfrågan och
kartläggningen av Sveriges
förflutna 1860–1930 (The Elevated
Land: Science, Land Elevation and the Formulation of a Swedish
Past,
1860–1930, 2001; 2 edn. 2002), received awards from the
Swedish Society for History of Science and the
Royal Skyttean
Society. Nordlund was a Visiting Rausing Scholar at the Office
for History of Science,
Uppsala University, in 2003; a Visiting
STINT Scholar (the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation
in Research and Higher Education) at the Department of
History and Philosophy of Science, University of
Cambridge and
a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, both
in 2004; and a Visiting Scholar
at the Max-Planck-Institut für
Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin in 2010–11. He was a SCAS
Fellow in 2007
and 2011. Nordlund received the Young Researcher
Award from Umeå University in 2008 and was appointed
Professor
of History of Science and Ideas at Umeå University in 2010. He
was elected a member of the Young
Academy of Sweden in 2011.
Nordlund’s research focuses on the history and social studies
of science and technology as well as on environ-
mental history. He
has conducted research on the history of environmental and field
sciences and has also
investigated the history of endocrinology
and the links between science, medicine and industry. He has
managed
research programmes on the history and communication
of biofuels and on the development of forestry and
forest science.
Nordlund is currently Director of Umeå Studies in Science,
Technology and Environmental Studies,
an interdisciplinary
research group. He has edited several books, including Topos (2006); Kamerajägaren (The
Camera Hunter, 2010); and Vägar
till vetenskapen (Paths to Science, 2013), and he is the author of a number of
articles in international books and journals. His latest
monograph, Hormones of Life: Endocrinology, the
Pharmaceutical
Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970, was
published by Science History Publications in 2011. A new book
entitled Motorspriten kommer! En historia om alternativa drivmedel
(Alcohol
Fuel Is the Future! A History of Alternative Fuels)
will be published in 2014.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.
