Séveric Yersin

[Translate to English:] Séveric Yersin

Associated Researcher

Séveric Yersin is an associate researcher at the Europainstitut Basel. He completed his doctoral thesis on the history of public health in Switzerland (1800-1920) at the University of Basel and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 2024. His current research focusses on the history of the Western European electricity market after the Second World War. In his project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PostDoc.Mobility), he is analysing the emergence of the electricity network - the so-called ‘grid’ - from a political, economic and technological perspective. He is currently guest researcher at King's College London.