Lino Camprubí is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is author of Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (Cambridge; Massachusetts 2014: MIT Press). Camprubí obtained a PhD in history at UCLA and then became a member of the ERC-funded project The Earth Under Surveillance, where he published on phosphates at the Western Sahara. His current project deals with oceanography, acoustics and the global environment.