Adri Albert de la Bruhèze is Assistant Professor of History of Technology and of Science, Technology and Society (STS). He holds a degree in Political Science (MA) from the University of Amsterdam (MA). In 1992 he received his PhD from the University of Twente. This PhD thesis was on the history of radioactive waste management in the United States. From 1993 till 2004 he has been editorial secretary, researcher, and co-editor of the seven volume national research program Techniek in Nederland in de Twintigste Eeuw (TIN-20). From 1998 till 2002 he has been project leader of the history of technology research program on the rise of Dutch Consumer Society entitled New Products and New Consumers. A History of a reciprocity 1890-1970, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (grant number 36-53-000). From 2004 till 2009 he has been a member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal for Social and Economic History (Tijdschrift for Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis (TSEG): http://www.tseg.nl/ Since 2004 Albert de la Bruhèze is a member of the Tensions of Europe network aligning European and U.S. scholars investigating the role of Technology in the making of Europe (www.histech.nl/tensions). Since 2007 he participates within the ESF-Eurocores program Inventing Europe: Technology and the making of Europe, 1850 to the present: http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/inventing-europe.html Within this program he is principal investigator in the research project European Ways of Life in the American Century: Mediating Consumption and Technology in the 20th century (EUWol): http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/programmes/inventing-europe/projects/list-of-projects.html#c14514 Since his PhD Albert de la Bruhèze published on the history of radioactive waste management in the U.S., radiological weapons, the history of bicycle use in the Netherlands and Europe, food & nutrition history in the Netherlands, the co-evolution of technology and Dutch society in the twentieth century, the emergence of the Dutch consumer society in the twentieth century, and the emergence of a European Consumer Society.

The research of Albert de la Bruhèze is embedded within the STePS research group History of Science, Technology and Society. His research interests focus upon the co-evolution of technology and Dutch society during the twentieth century, the emergence of the Dutch and the European consumer society in the twentieth century, the role of intermediate actors and mediation processes in the development and societal diffusion of technology, and the role of leisure and tourism in the making of Europe, discontinuing Technologies.