Oliver Hochadel

Oliver Hochadel is a science historian and researcher at the Institució Milà i Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona). The development of his academic career has taken him to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States and Spain. His current research is focused on the relationship between science and its audiences. He has worked on electricity as public science in the German Enlightenment, the history of zoos in the 19th century, the history of research into human origins in the 20th century and the urban history of science around 1900. His publications include the monograph El mito de Atapuerca. Orígenes, ciencia, divulgación (2013), and the volumes Playing with Fire. Histories of the Lightning Rod (with Peter Heering and David Rhees, 2009), Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888-1929 (2016) and Urban Histories of Science, 1820-1940, which will be published in 2018 (both with Agustí Nieto-Galan).