Erik van der Vleuten teaches at the School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology. His main research interest is the mutual shaping of infrastructure and societal change in the 20th & 21tst centuries. He published on specific infrastructure such as Danish electrification (Ph.D. thesis, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1998), Dutch wet infrastructure, and European electrical and food transport infrastructure. He also developed broader syntheses and concepts, e.g. on the networked nation, the networking of Europe, transnational system building, and the possibility of a transnational history of technology. Erik co-directed international research programs on Networking Europe (running 1999-2005) and European Critical Infrastructure  (running 2007-2010, www.eurocrit.eu), and is a program director at the Netherlands/Flemish N.W. Posthumus Institute for economic and social history. Currently he co-authors a book on infrastructure in the Palgrave-MacMillan Making Europe series (http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/mebrochure.pdf).

• Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten, Per Högselius. Infrastructuring Europe. Networks, Society, Nature. Palgrave MacMillan Making Europe bookseries (in preparation).
• Anique Hommels, Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten  (eds), Europe goes critical. The emergence and governance of European critical infrastructures (under review).
• Erik van der Vleuten & Arne Kaijser, eds., Networking Europe. Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006).
  
• Erik van der Vleuten & Geert Verbong, eds., Networked Nation. Technology, society and nature in the Netherlands in the 20th century. Special issue of History and Technology 20 (3) (2004). 
  
• Wim Ravenstein, Leon Hermans, & Erik van der Vleuten (eds), Participation and globalization in water system building. Special issue of Knowledge, Technology & Policy 14 (4) (2002).
  
• Electrifying Denmark. A symmetrical history of central and decentral electricity supply until 1970 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Aarhus.

• Erik van der Vleuten & Per Högselius, ‘Resisting change? The transnational dynamics of European energy regimes’, in:  Geert Verbong & Derk Loorback (eds), Governing the energy transition (forthcoming).
• Vincent Lagendijk & Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Inventing electrical Europe. Interdependencies, borders, vulnerabilities.’ In: Hommels et al. (eds), Europe goes critical (under review).
• Erik van der Vleuten, "Feeding the Peoples of Europe. Transnational Food Transport Infrastructures in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960", in: Badenoch & Fickers (ed), Untangling Infrastructures and Europe: mediations, events, scales (Palgrave, 2010).
• Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, 'Interpreting transnational infrastructure vulnerability: European blackout and the historic dynamics of transnational infrastructure governance'. Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2053–2062.
• Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, 'Transnational infrastructure vulnerability: The historical shaping of the 2006 European blackout'. Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2042–2052.
• Erik van der Vleuten. ‘Networked Nation. Infrastructure integration of the Netherlands,’ in: Johan Schot, Arie Rip, and Harry Lintsen (eds), Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The age of contested modernization 1890-1970 (Zutphen: MIT Press/ Walburg Pers, 2010), 47-123
• Erik van der Vleuten, 'Toward a Transnational History of Technology. Meanings, Promises, Pitfalls', Technology & Culture 2008/4 (October 2008), 974–94.
• Erik van der Vleuten,  Irene Anastasiadou, Vincent Lagendijk & Frank Schipper, 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in: Contemporary European History, 16, 3 (2007), pp.321-347.
• Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser, ‘Prologue & Introduction: Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of contemporary Europe', in: Van der Vleuten and Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe (SHP, 2006), 1-22.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Understanding Network Societies: Two decades of large technical systems studies', in Van der Vleuten and Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe (SHP, 2006), 279-314.
  
• Erik van der Vleuten & Rob Raven, 'Lock-in and change: Distributed generation in Denmark in a long-term perspective', Energy Policy 34, 18 (2006), 3739-3748.
• Erik van der Vleuten &  Arne Kaijser, ‘Networking Europe', History and Technology 21 (1) (2005), 21-48.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Infrastructures and societal change. A view from the Large Technical Systems field.' Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 16 (3) (2004), 395-414.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Introduction. Networking technology, networking society, networking nature.' History and Technology 20 (3) (2004), 195-203.
• Geert Verbong & Erik van der Vleuten, "Under Construction: Material integration of the Netherlands.' History and Technology 20 (3) (2004), 205-226.
• Erik van der Vleuten & Cornelis Disco, ‘Water Wizards: Reshaping wet nature and society.' History and Technology 20 (3) (2004), 291-309.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘In search of the Networked Nation. Transforming technology, society and nature in the Netherlands in the 20th century.' European Review of History 10 (2003), 59-78.
• Wim Ravenstein, Leon Hermans and Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Participation and globalization in Water system building. Guest editors' introduction.' Knowledge, Technology & Policy 14 (4) (2002), 4-12.
• Cornelis Disco & Erik van der Vleuten, ‘The politics of wet system building: Balancing interests in Dutch water management from the middle ages to the present.' Knowledge, Technology & Policy 14 (4) (2002), 21-40.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Constructing centralised electricity supply in Denmark and the Netherlands: an actor group perspective.' Centaurus. International magazine of the history of mathematics, science, and technology 41 (1-2) (1999), 3-36.
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Autoproduction of electricity: Cases from Danish industry.' Polhem 14 (2) (1996), 118-154.