Personal statement

Dr. Matthew N. Eisler researches topics at the intersection of energy, environment and society, with a focus on how ideology and policy shape social relations and the biosphere. Dr. Eisler's first book (Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea, Rutgers University Press 2012) explores these themes in a case study of an advanced power source technology. His second book (Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car, MIT Press 2022) explores these ideas in a history of the contemporary electric vehicle. Dr. Eisler's current research project (Greenwork and Environmental Knowledge) interrogates how environmental regulations shape labor, science, engineering, and business practices.

Dr. Eisler invites candidates for doctoral studies under his supervision to contact him at matthew.eisler@strath.ac.uk. Dr. Eisler advises projects in the history of science and technology/science and technology studies (STS)/environmental humanities relating to all 7 strategic themes of the University of Strathclyde (advanced manufacturing and materials, energy, health and wellbeing, innovation and entrepreneurship, measurement, digital and enabling technologies, ocean, air and space, and people, place and policy).