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Sebastian De Pretto

Dr. Sebastian De Pretto
Co-director of the Graduate School

Sebastian De Pretto is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern. His research focuses on the environmental and social history of hydropower in the Swiss-Italian Alps. He was a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and at the Universities of Innsbruck and Trento. He completed his doctorate in Lucerne after studying history and philosophy in Heidelberg, Basel and Bologna. He accompanies the historiographical projects at the Graduate School Cultures of the Alps.

Project

Transnational dams in the Alpine region, 1870-1974