Frank Veraart
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Assistant Professor
Frank Veraart
Contact
Department / Institute
Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences
Group
Technology, Innovation & Society
RESEARCH PROFILE
Frank Veraart is an Assistant Professor of history of technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. His areas of expertise include Modern and Contemporary History, Environmental Studies, History of Mobility, Spatial Planning and Computing. Frank’s studies focus on how societal developments are influences by technology and choices of actors. Frank researches the historical development of sustainability trade-offs in transnational resource chains. International trade influences well-being and sustainability (social, economic and ecologic) at places of excavation, production and consumption. Frank studies the origins and historical development of the resources chains and its local impacts on sustainability and well-being. \ \ Frank is project coordinator of the project Sustainbility Trade-offs in the Netherlands´ Entangled Modernisation (STONEM), 1900-2020, granted by the Dutch Science foundation NWO (406.21.FHR.018) . This project studeis how Dutch imports have been affecting economic, social and environmental changes elsewhere in the world. STONEM investigates the commodification process or resources in conjunction with the development of global supply chains and their effect on sustainability in sites of extraction, production, consumption and depletion.
\ SUPERVISION\ Frank Veraart is co-promitor of:
Henk-Jan Dekker: PhD thesis (2021) Cycling Pathways, the politics and governance of Dutch Infrastructure, 1920-2020
Jan Ploeger: PhD thesis (march 2024) Het verstandshuwelijk van fiets en trein, kansrijke ketenmobiliteit sinds 1900
Irene A. Niet: PhD thesis (January 2025) Pulic values in Power: a publiv value framework for governing AI un the transitioning Dutch electricity system
Gijs ten Berghe: PhD candidate (expected graduation July 2025): Memorizing the future in socio-technical transtions - perceptions of the past in the energy transtion to gas and electricity in Dutch households.
Maliene Kip: PhD candidate (expected graduation March 2028): The Netherlands´ Global Entabled Hisory of Plant Oils.
Carlotta Buttaboni PhD candidate (expected graduation July 2028): The Governance, Ethical, Legal and Social Implication (GELSI) of AI in the electricty sectors. Part of Horizon HARNASS project
?The future started yesterday. New technologies need to be embedded in existing systems that resist change. Analysis of the systems developments helps in identifying opportunities for sustainable innovation’
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Frank Veraart received his PhD in History of Technology from TU/e in 2008, At this time, he was also a member of WTMC, The Netherlands Graduate School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture He also holds an MSc in Technology and Society from TU/e.
Frank is one or the research directors of the research network ‘Drivers and Carriers of Globalisation’ of the NW Posthumus research School for Economic and Social History.
He has authored several book chapters and publishes regularly in key journals, such as Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development, Builders and Planners, Cycling Cities: The European Experience and Hacking Europe.
Recent Publications
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[### Roots and Dynamics of Dutch Foreign Plant-oil Demands 1920–2020
Global Environment
(2026)
Frank C.A. Veraart,Maliene Kip,Dulce van Vliet](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/87b48fcd-5b57-47b6-b6da-befa698450bb) - [### Cycling in Numbers 1920-2025
(2025)
Frank C.A. Veraart](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/db522b70-509e-415c-bac8-55a53a101a77) - [### Book review:
Ambix
(2024)
Frank C.A. Veraart](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/21ea2ee3-62c6-428f-b17d-777c99ced56f) - [### Digitalization of the EU electricity system
(2023)
Irene A. Niet,Luc F.M. van Summeren,Eef Masson,Anna J. Wieczorek,Frank C.A. Veraart,Q.C. van Est](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/462c21fb-2ee2-43fb-9722-255da1db6dea) - [### Discourses on AI in electricity systems: technology assessment narratives in academic and policy documents
(2023)
Irene A. Niet,Frank C.A. Veraart,Q.C. van Est](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/085f050b-f965-41f4-b4b0-d3bdf52963b2)
Ancillary Activities
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