Helmuth Trischler is head of research at Deutsches Museum in Munich, and, together with Christof Mauch, is director of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), as well as Professor of Modern History and History of Technology at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. He has published widely on social history, history of science and technology, transport and environmental history, and on cultures of innovation and knowledge. Helmuth, who studied modern history and German literature in Munich, was in charge of the joint RCC-Deutsches Museum exhibition project “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands,” which opened in 2014. He has been involved in a multitude of national and European research programs, including the European Social Fund-sponsored networks “Tensions of Europe” and “Inventing Europe.” He held fellowships in Washington, Oxford, and The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar. He is editor of a number of publication series, including “Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology” (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press), “Umwelt und Gesellschaft” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), and “The Environment in History: International Perspectives” (Berghahn Books), and the journal Global Environments.