Cyrus Mody

Cyrus Mody is Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of three monographs, including The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science (2017, MIT Press) and The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s. He is currently PI of the NWO Vici project Managing Scarcity and Sustainability, on the oil industry’s involvement in alternative energy and environmental governance in the 1970s and ’80s; and he is a co-PI of the ERC Synergy project NanoBubbles, which looks at the difficulties scientists face in correcting the scientific record.