Melina Antonia Buns is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and visiting postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment.
From December 2021 to November 2024, she is PI of ‘
Nuclear Nordics: Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
’, funded by the Research Council of Norway (324293) and placed at The Greenhouse/University of Stavanger, Norway. As part of this International Mobility Grant, Melina will be visting postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, from 2021 to 2023. At KTH, Melina is affiliated with the research group '
NUCLEARWATERS
', led by Per Högselius.
She holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (June 2021), with the thesis ‘Green Internationalists: Nordic Environmental Cooperation, 1967-1988’. She has been visiting doctoral candidate at Lund University, Sweden, and at the Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany. As an international and environmental historian, her interests include Nordic history and cooperation, international environmental policies, nuclear history, environmental movements, and transnational history.
Period: December 2021 - December 2023