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Erik van der Vleuten teaches at the School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology. His main research interest is the mutual shaping of infrastructure and societal change in the 20th & 21st centuries. He published on specific infrastructure such as Danish electrification (Ph.D. thesis, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1998), Dutch wet infrastructure, and European electrical and food infrastructure. He also developed broader syntheses and concepts, e.g. on the networked nation, the networking of Europe, transnational system building, transnational regime analysis, and a transnational history of technology.

Erik co-directed the international research program Networking Europe (running 1999-2005), is a program director at the Netherlands/Flemish N.W. Posthumus Institute for economic and social history, and participated in the pan-European Tensions of Europe/Inventing Europe transition and advisory committees. Currently he co-authors a book on infrastructure in the Palgrave-MacMillan Making Europe series (http://www.makingeurope.eu/).

In EUROCRIT Erik is an overall program co-organizer, member of the book editor team, and principal investigator responsible for subproject 2 on transnational electricity infrastructure.

Work address:

IPO 2.28 School of Innovation Sciences
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands
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Relevant publications in English

On the long-term dynamics of critical infrastructure and its vulnerabilities:

•  Per Högselius, Anique Hommels, Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten (eds)., Europe goes critical. The Emergence and Governance of Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerabilities (under review).

• Erik van der Vleuten, Per Högselius, Anique Hommels, Arne Kaijser, "General Introduction: Europe's Infrastructure Vulnerabilities", in: Högselius et al. (eds), Europe goes critical (under review).
• Vincent Lagendijk & Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Inventing electrical Europe. Interdependencies, borders, vulnerabilities.’ In: Högselius et al. (eds), Europe goes critical (under review).
• Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, "Interpreting transnational infrastructure vulnerability: European blackout and the historic dynamics of transnational infrastructure governance." Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2053–2062.
• Erik van der Vleuten & Vincent Lagendijk, "Transnational infrastructure vulnerability: The historical shaping of the 2006 European blackout." Energy Policy 38 (2010): 2042–2052.

The historical shaping of the European network society:

• Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten, Connecting Europe. Economy, Warfare, Nature (Palgrave MacMillan Making Europe series), in preparation.http://www.makingeurope.eu/
•  Erik van der Vleuten, "Feeding the Peoples of Europe. Transnational Food Transport Infrastructures in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960", in: Badenoch & Fickers (eds), Materializing Europe (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 148-177.
  
• (short paper)  Vincent Lagendijk & Erik van der Vleuten, 'Electricity infrastructures', Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009): 315-319. (299.62 kB)
• (short paper) Frank Schipper & Erik van der Vleuten, 'Transnational infrastructure development and governance in historical perspective', Network Industries Quarterly Vol. 10, nr. 3 (2008): 5-7.
• Erik van der Vleuten, Irene Anastasiadou, Vincent Lagendijk & Frank Schipper, 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in: Contemporary European History, 16, 3 (2007), pp.321-347. (1.64 MB)
• Erik van der Vleuten and  Arne Kaijser (eds.), Networking Europe. Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006). Table of contents (132.88 kB).
• Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser, ‘Prologue & Introduction: Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of contemporary Europe', in: Van der Vleuten and Kaijser (eds), Networking Europe (SHP, 2006), 1-22. (166.17 kB)
• Erik van der Vleuten &  Arne Kaijser, ‘Networking Europe', History and Technology 21 (1) (2005), 21-48. (281.72 kB)

•  Erik van der Vleuten & Rob Raven, 'Lock-in and change: Distributed generation in Denmark in a long-term perspective', Energy Policy 34, 18 (2006), 3739-3748. (196.56 kB)
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Constructing centralised electricity supply in Denmark and the Netherlands: an actor group perspective.' Centaurus 41 (1-2) (1999), 3-36. (1.39 MB)
• Erik van der Vleuten, Electrifying Denmark. A symmetrical history of central and decentral electricity supply until 1970 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Aarhus, 1998) (33.84 MB).
• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Autoproduction of electricity: Cases from Danish industry.' Polhem 14 (2) (1996), 118-154. (3.52 MB)

(transnational analysis)

• Erik van der Vleuten, ‘Toward a Transnational History of Technology. Meanings, Promises, Pitfalls’, Technology and Culture 49 (2008): 974–94.

(infrastructure lock-in and change)

• Erik van der Vleuten & Per Högselius, ‘Resisting change? The transnational dynamics of European energy regimes’, in:  Geert Verbong & Derk Loorbach (eds), Governing the energy transition (Routledge Sustainable Transitions Series), due April 2012.

• Boukje Huijben, Erik van der Vleuten, Rob Raven, Geert Verbong, "Experimenting for Innovation: Strategic Niche Management, Social Acceptance, and Business Models for Desert Solar Power Plants", in: Keiichi Komoto et al. (eds.), Energy from the Desert Volume 4 (International Energy Agency/ Earthscan Publishers, forthcoming).

(Large Technical Systems/ system building/ LTS & social change)