Judith Schueler was a PhD-student at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and currently co-manages a large research consortium on infrastructures.

In 1997 she graduated from Maastricht University in Arts and Culture (specialisation Technological Culture) on a thesis about a new from of housing for the elderly in Rotterdam.

She received her MA degree in Society, Science and Technology in Europe from Maastricht University and the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1998. Her Master thesis focused on the usage of images in the promotion of a new Swiss tunnelling project called Swissmetro. In 2001, she started her current research in the field of the history of technology. Her main interest is the mutual construction of inter/national identities and technology. The case study on Gotthard railways in Switzerland (1872- 1943) illustrates how the landscape, railway technology and identities played a role in the process of defining the Gotthard as an icon of Swiss national identity. Soon, she continued her research on Swiss tunnelling at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where she cooperated in a project on the cultural history of the 100-year old Simplon tunnel. Between 2006-2008 she managed a foresight project on the future of infrastructure networks in Europe for the STT Study Centre for Technology Trends in The Hague (www.stt.nl). From July 15, 2008 onward she operates as executive director of the Foundation Next Generation Infrastructure at Delft University of Technology (www.nginfra.nl). She is also editor in chief of the HubHolland.Magazine (www.hubholland.eu)

June 24, 2008 Aksant Academic Publishers and the Society for the History of Technology published her book Materialising Identity.

Dr Judith Schueler
Executive Director
Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 5
2628 BX Delft
The Netherlands
j.a.schueler@tudelft.nl
+31 15 27 84887