His research focuses on the relationship between Europeans and the environment in the modern period. He has held fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Deutsches Museum, and was the Fulbright-Botstiber Visiting Professor for Austrian-American Studies at the University of Innsbruck in 2016. He has published in the journal Environmental History. Currently he is working on a book manuscript on the transformation of the Alpine landscape by hydroelectric dams in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.