Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment. After lectureships at Imperial College London and King’s College, he is now a CNRS researcher at the Centre de Recherches Historiques de l’EHESS. He is the author of several books, including Happy Apocalypse, (2012), The Shock of the Anthropocene with Christophe Bonneuil and Chaos in the Heavens (2020) with Fabien Locher. He has just published More and more and more. An All Consuming History of Energy (Penguin, 2024).
Jorrit Smit combines his background in physical chemistry and science and technology studies to explore how socio-technic futures shape scientific research – and vice versa. He is currently focused on the politics of technofixes like ‘clean’ hydrogen, carbon capture and green fertilizer. Using an interdisciplinary approach, he critically analyzes the relationships between public research and (fossil) industries as well as the political limits embedded in feasibility and sustainability assessments of emerging technologies. As part of his research, Jorrit collaborates with Naïmé Perrette on a film essay about an unexpected energy source: ‘natural’ hydrogen.
