Felix Mauch holds an M.A. in Geosciences and History from the University of Freiburg. He subsequently worked as a Research Associate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2015. Since then, he has taught at the Department of Science, Technology and Society (STS) within the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, initially as Assistant Professor in the History of Technology and, since 2025, as Senior Scientist in Anthropology of Science & Technology. He was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at the German Historical Institute London, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Birkbeck, University of London, and ETH Zurich. In 2024, he completed his habilitation at TU Munich with a thesis on “Singapore as a Logistics City” and was awarded the venia legendi in Modern and Contemporary History.
His research focuses on global histories of science, technology, and the environment, particularly the “long” 19th century and Southeast Asia. His work also engages with historical disaster, migration, and memory studies, as well as the Applied Humanities and TUM’s Public Science Lab.
- A Permanent Revolution. Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848-1942, (01.01.2016 – 31.12.2025)
- Fieldwork. An Urban Natures Walkshop (01.01.2022 – 31.12.2026)
- Resilient Universities (01.07.2025 – 30.06.2028)
Selection
- Moving Through Singapore. Approaching the Southeast Asian Logistics City, in: Technikgeschichte (Special Issue: Microhistories of Labor and Logistics), 2026 (forthcoming).
- Infrastructuring Flows. Logistics and Networking across Time and Space (with Daniela Zetti), in: Christoph Brunner, Mathias Denecke and Beate Ochsner (eds.): Infrastructures of Sense-Making. Techniques, Powers, Operations. Meson Press, 2026 (forthcoming).
- Review: Singaporean Creatures. Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City, ed. by Timothy Barnard, in: Journal of Historical Geography 91, 2026.
- A River Runs through It. Disaster Mobilities of an Elbe Island, in: Environment and History 32 (2), 2026 (Published Online:17 October 2025).
- Public History. Infrastructural Imaginaries and the Production of Affective Power, in: Technology and Culture 65 (4), 2024.
- Review: Technikwenden. Historische Perspektiven auf soziotechnische Um- und Aufbrüche, ed. by Heike Weber, in: Technology and Culture 65 (4), 2024.
- Review: Materialfluss. Eine Geschichte der Logistik an den Orten ihres Stillstands, Monika Dommann, in: H-Soz-Kult, 13.10.2023, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-27931.
- Speicher in der Stadt. Logistische Landschaften der Ersten Globalisierung, in: Technikgeschichte 88 (2), 2021.