Dr Matthew Eisler
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
History
Personal statement
Personal statement
Matthew N. Eisler studies the relationship between environmental and energy policy and industrial science and technology, with a particular focus on material practice in the postindustrial era. In 2017, Dr. Eisler moved to the University of Strathclyde from North Carolina State University, where he served as Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program. In 2022, Dr. Eisler completed his second book (Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car, forthcoming in MIT Press), a history of the contemporary electric automobile. Dr. Eisler is also one of the founders and principals of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainable Practices of Research in Energy (C-INSPRE), an innovative interdisciplinary program of doctoral training that links all four faculties of the University of Strathclyde.
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Publications
- Book review : James Morton Turner. Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. xv + 234 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-75024-8
- Eisler Matthew
- (2023)
- [Book review]: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future : Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. xv + 234 pp. $34.95, cloth, ISBN 978-0-295-75024-8.
- Eisler Matthew N
- (2023)
- False starts : the story of vehicle-to-grid power
- Eisler Matthew N
- (2023)
- Computers on Wheels? In the early 2000s, a metaphor borrowed from consumer electronics helped electric vehicle enthusiasts, Silicon Valley engineers, and policymakers reinvent the automobile
- Eisler Matthew N
- Issues in Science and Technology Vol 39, pp. 70-73 (2023)
- Age of Auto Electric : Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car
- Eisler Matthew
- Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14759.001.0001
- When Computers on Wheels Become Flaming Metal-Oxide Robocars
- Eisler Matthew N
- (2021)
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Research Interests
- Energy and Environmental Studies
- Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
- History of Engineering
- Social and Cultural history of the United States
Professional Activities
- Green Discourse, the Energy/Materials Ecosystem, and Technologies of Environmental Care
- Invited speaker
- 17/5/2023
- Age of Auto Electric
- Invited speaker
- 15/5/2023
- STS Conference Graz TU
- Speaker
- 9/5/2023
- STS HUB, RWTH Aachen University
- Speaker
- 16/3/2023
- Annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology
- Participant
- 11/11/2022
- From Petroleum to Power Sources: Big Oil and the Sociotechnics of Energy Conversion
- Invited speaker
- 12/5/2022
Projects
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainable Practices of Research in Energy (C-INSPRE) - Strathclyde CDT
- Ivaturi, Aruna (Principal Investigator) Robertson, Stuart (Principal Investigator) Comerford, David (Principal Investigator) Eisler, Matthew (Principal Investigator)
- Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/c-inspre/) - £332,658.0
- 01-Jan-2019
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Contact
Dr
Matthew
Eisler
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
History
Email: matthew.eisler@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8323