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Mathijs Boom is a post-doctoral researcher at the Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University, and has been a guest researcher at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. His research focuses on the history of anti-nuclear movements during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly examining the role of thwarted transitions in nuclear energy. In 2023, he obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, with a dissertation that explored early modern debates concerning the Earth's deep past, specifically in the context of the Dutch lowlands. From 2019 to 2023, he developed and taught courses on the history of environmentalism and the philosophy of climate and earth sciences at both the University of Amsterdam and the Freudenthal Institute. His academic interests encompass intellectual history, the history of climate and earth sciences, and environmental history.
Department of Psychology