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Ph.D., Professor Associado, Universidade de São Paulo
(Visiting Scholar,
December 8, 2012–February 24, 2013)
Ph.D., Associate Professor for German Studies, University of Michigan
(Visiting Scholar,
December 1, 2012–April 30, 2013): Overland to Lobito Bay: The 1925 Scientific Expedition of Dorothea Bleek and Mary Pocock
Ph.D.
(Research Group Director,
November 1, 2010 - January 31, 2016): The Construction of Deaf-Muteness and the Writing of Norms in Western Europe and the United States (17th to 19th Centuries)
e-mail: sarnaud@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: sarnaud@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2015): Big Science in the Archive: Managing Big Data in America and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
e-mail: earonova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: earonova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–May 31, 2014, funded by the Fernand-Braudel funding program): The Ontological Status of Geometrical Objects in the Commentary on the Elements of Euclid of Jacques Peletier du Mans (1517–1582)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2012 - September 30, 2013): Blood Groups between Human Genetics, Anthropology and Transfusion Medicine in Mid-twentieth Century Britain
e-mail: jbangham@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jbangham@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011): Micropolitics of Difference: Soviet/Russian Biomedical Sciences from the Atomic Age to Post-Genomics
e-mail: sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: sbauer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.-Ing.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 15, 2002–December 31, 2016): The Finale of Antiquity and the Analytical Turn of Mechanics (SFB 644, Transformations of Antiquity)
e-mail: becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
December 1, 2012–August 31, 2013): Cultural Evolution and the Free Market: Hayek's Theory of Group Selection
Ph.D., MIT
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2013): Ethics, Epistemology, and Law in Endangered Species Research
e-mail: ebenson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: ebenson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 1, 1994): Research Strategies in Biological Evolutionary Theory; Modern Darwinism and the Philosophy of Science
e-mail: beurton@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: beurton@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
SFB 980 "Episteme in Motion"
(Research Scholar,
December 1, 2012–November 30, 2016): PhD Project: Astronomy and Literature in the Humanistic Culture of the XV and XVI centuries
e-mail: jbiank@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jbiank@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr. rer. nat.
(Research Scholar,
May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2014): History of Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1, 2013–February 28, 2015)
e-mail: lbonolis@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: lbonolis@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1–August 1, 2013): Widening the Boundaries of Mechanics: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy from Boussinesq to Duhem
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University, Hamilton
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013): How our Days Became Numbered: The Development of a Statistical Infrastructure of Risk in the United States, 1873–1935
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since April 15, 2012): Edition of Arabic Texts on Mechanics
e-mail: brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1–July 31, 2013)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): The Canon Under Threat: Objects Without Status and Processes of (De)canonisation of Middle Eastern Archaeological Finds in 19th Century Europe
e-mail: mbrusius@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mbrusius@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 15–August 15, 2013): Chromatic Variations: Early Modern Practices of Color
Dipl. Phys., Dr. des.
(TOPOI Research Group Director,
November 1, 2012–October 31, 2017): Between Knowledge and Innovation: The Unequal-Armed Balance
e-mail: buettner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: buettner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Utrecht
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2012–July 31, 2013)
(Research Scholar,
since April 1, 2003): History of Institutions of Physics in the 20th Century; Political and Social Context of Albert Einstein’s Activities in Berlin.
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since January 1, 2002): Information Technology Group
e-mail: casties@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: casties@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1–April 30, 2013): Heredity under the Microscope : the Study of Human Chromosomes, 1950s to 1970s
e-mail: schadarevian@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schadarevian@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
PD Dr.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1, 2012–June 30, 2013, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Heisenberg Programm): Agent Models: Constellations between Biology, Anthropology Psychology and Philosophy 1800-2000
e-mail: tcheung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: tcheung@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
European University Institute in Florence, Italy
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1, 2013–February 28, 2014): Medical Demography in the Belgian Congo. Race, Disease, and Fertility, 1920-1960
Ph.D., Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
(Executive Director,
since July 15, 1995): Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Ph.D., University of Bari
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2012): Practices and Paths of Rationality in 18th Century Naples
e-mail: fdeceglia@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: fdeceglia@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Group Director,
October 1, 2010 - December 31, 2015): Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
e-mail: vderisi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vderisi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Delhi, India
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1, 2013–April 30, 2014): Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, ISCTE/IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 – 17 and July 17 – August 17, 2013): Endangerment and its Consequences
Directrice de recherches au CNRS
(Visiting Scholar,
February 10–April 14, 2013, funded by the CNRS and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Lorraine): The Introduction of Aristotle and Avicenna into Natural Philosophy around 1230
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
(Research Group Director,
July 1, 2011 - September 30, 2016)
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–March 31, 2013): The Birth of Gender. Medicine and the Search for the Better Sex
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
March 23–April 21, 2013): DNA, Religion and History: Case Studies from South Asia and Genetic Research on Jewish Populations
Ph.D. in Criminology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): The Legal Capacity of the Deaf in the Decisions of the Imperial Court of Justice
e-mail: renescu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: renescu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Associate Professor, McGill University, Motreal, Canada
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1–June 30, 2013): The Unity of Nature: History of a Philosophical Concept
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1–August 1, 2013): Edition of Guidobaldo dal Monte's Correspondences and of his Manuscript Meditatiunculae
e-mail: mfrank@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mfrank@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1, 2013–February 28, 2016)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): A Matter of Time: Changing Clock Habits in Edo Japan
e-mail: yfrumer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: yfrumer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Wesleyan University
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1, 2012–May 15, 2013): Turkey Red Wheat: The American Breadbasket and the Organization of Global Plant Genetic Recources
Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Chair of Comparative Literature, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
June 3–July 3, 2013)
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
October 1, 2004 - February 28, 2014): History of the biomedical institutes in Berlin-Buch
Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Maryland University
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1–June 30, 2013): "The Living Book of Knowledge”: The Moving-Image Encyclopedia from Marey to the Internet
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 1, 2012): Science and Technology in Italian Literary Journals, 1945–1967
e-mail: dgermanese@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dgermanese@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Zurich, Switzerland
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1 - December 31, 2012, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation): Nature's laboratories. Racial Research and Human Genetics in Switzerland, 1920-1970
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2012–April 30, 2015, funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung)
e-mail: ggiannini@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: ggiannini@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Cambridge
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1–June 30, 2013): Paths of health: gender and reproductive medicine articulations amongst Yanomami people and doctors in Venezuela
Prof. Dr., President Emeritus, Professor of Physics, The Hebrew University Jerusalem
(Visiting Scholar,
January 2–February 8, 2013): Einsteins’s Legacy. Comparative Study of Einstein and Planck
Dr.-Ing., Prof. für Informatik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland
(Visiting Scholar,
since October 18, 2010): Semantic Modelling and Knowledge Representation for Scientific Object Documentation and Digital Editions
(Research Scholar,
April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2012): Scientific Supervision of Research Infrastructures Used within Projects: Development and Coordination of Archive Material
e-mail: hammer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hammer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Sydney, Australia
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
June 1–June 30, 2013): Interactive Constructionism about ‘Race’ against Racial Naturalism
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
(Research Scholar,
since December 1, 1995): History of Physics in the 19th and 20th Centuries, esp. Institutional History of Quantum Theory and Modern Metrology; History of Science in the GDR.
e-mail: dh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
June 1, 2009–February 28, 2014): The Establishment and Reconstruction of Copernicanism from the 16th to the 18th Century
Universität Rostock
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 15 - March 31, 2012)
M.A., Kyoto University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
December 1, 2012–March 31, 2014, funded by the DAAD): The origin of equilibrium statistical mechanics: Boltzmann, Planck and Einstein
e-mail: hinaba@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hinaba@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Magister Artium Humangeographie/ Soziologie (University of Potsdam)
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2014): Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice at the Central Institute for Cancer Research Berlin-Buch.
e-mail: jjahn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jjahn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1, 2008–September 30, 2013)
BA in Physics and Master in Advanced Physics at the University of Barcelona
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
February 1, 2009 - December 31, 2012): History of Optical Dispersion, from Classical to Quantum Physics
M.A.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2011–September 30, 2013): Practice of the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory; Early Debates on the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
e-mail: mjaehnert@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mjaehnert@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since October 1, 1995): History of Physics in the 19th and 20th Centuries (esp. Atomic Physics and Institutional and Social Aspects).
e-mail: kant@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kant@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
M.A.
(Research Scholar,
since December 1, 2001): Project: Visualization and Publishing Scientific Content with Internet Technologies.
e-mail: kern@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kern@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1–September 30, 2013): Of Human Families and Mutant Mice Strains: Transfer and Transformation of Knowledge about Alzheimer’s Disease in the early 1990s
Prof. Dr., Außerordentliche Professorin an der Universität Konstanz
(Research Scholar,
since July 1, 1998): History of the Laboratory Sciences in the Context of Application
e-mail: klein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: klein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult., Freie Universität Berlin
(Visiting Scholar,
2012-2014)
Institute of History, University of Vienna, Austria
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1–July 31, 2013): The Development of Modern Mathematical Physics in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Dr. des.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1, 2008–February 18, 2013): Paul Valéry’s Cahiers: Drawing and Writing as a Practice of Thought
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013): How to Make Microbes Travel. Bacteriological Knowledge Transfer to and Within Poland, 1885-1939.
Dr. phil.
(Visiting Scholar,
November 1, 2011 - January 31, 2013, funded by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Historical Epistemology of Hearing (1850-2000)
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1, 2013–December 31, 2015, funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung): Listening Techniques in Post-Reformation Geneva: Evidence from the Registers of the Consistory (1542-1555)
IREPH, Department of Philosophy, University Paris Ouest Nanterre
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
February 27–April 25, 2013): Cancer Stem Cell: Stemness Ontology and its Consequences for Therapies Against Cancers
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
(Research Scholar,
since July 1, 1994): History of Science in Connection with History of Philosophy on the Basis of Social History; Sciences in Greek Antiquity; Early Modern Physics and Chemistry; History of Biology (15th–18th centuries)
e-mail: wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
January 1, 2004–December 31, 2014, funded by the GIF and the DFG): History and philosophy of modern physics
e-mail: lehner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: lehner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
D. Phil.
(MPG Minerva Research Group Leader,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2017): Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014)
e-mail: kleonhard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kleonhard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1–May 31, 2013): Genealogy and Belonging. Concepts of Reproduction, Gender and Race in German Philosophies of Nature 1775-1830
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
(Research Group Director,
March 1, 2009–April 30, 2016): Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century
e-mail: vlipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vlipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1–May 31, 2013, funded by the DAAD): Natural History and History Painting in Rubens' Animals
e-mail: smaxwell@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: smaxwell@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2007–April 30, 2013, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung 2010–12): Dream Watchers: A History of Modern Dream Research
Dr. phil., Professor für Philosophie, Universität Heidelberg
(Visiting Scholar,
since July 1, 2004): History of Mechanics. Aristotle's "mechanical questions" in 16th and 17th century mechanics
e-mail: mclaughlin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mclaughlin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
University of Michigan
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013, funded by the ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship): Picturing Number: Visualizing Quadrivial Concepts in the Central Middle Ages
M.A.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1, 2011–June 30, 2014): Tumor Immunology in Berlin-Buch, 1958–1985
e-mail: smeyer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: smeyer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institute for Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–March 31, 2013): Visualization in Geography. Scopic Regimes in Geography between Photogrammetry and Digital Cartography (ca 1930-1980)
Ph.D., Professore Ordinario di Filologia Greca, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Visiting Professor of Social Thought and of Classics, University of Chicago
(External Scientific Member,
since November 19, 2010): Etymology and Allegoresis in the Ancient Greek Scholarly Traditions
Dr. phil., Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1 – 31 and August 1 – 31, 2013)
e-mail: smuewi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: smuewi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
Intermittently since October 2011): From Cennini to De Mayerne. Artists’ recipes of painting materials and techniques, 1400-1650
Dr.-Ing., Dr. h.c., Prof. em. of ship design
(Visiting Scholar,
since August 1, 2001): Publications on the history of ship theory and ship design (Archimedes, Euler, Bouguer)
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2013): Textual Practices and Canon Formation at the Byzantine Court
PD Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since June 15, 2005): The Science of Statistics and the Politics of Censustaking; Early Childhood Development Studies in 19th-Century America
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
November 1, 2010 - June 30, 2016): Transformation of cosmological models from Antiquity up to the Copernican turn and beyond; history of natural philosophy; the philosophical and scientific culture of the Renaissance
e-mail: pdomodeo@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: pdomodeo@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Professor of Italian Literature, University of Calabria, Italy
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1–June 30, 2013)
Emmy-Noether-Research Group, University of Münster, Germany
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1 - December 31, 2012): Eugenics and the Discourse on Reproductive Rights of African American Women in the Twentieth Century
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2013, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
e-mail: cpaethe@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: cpaethe@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
(Visiting Scholar,
October 1, 2012–August 31, 2013, funded by the Harvard University and the MPIWG): Knowledge on the Move: Scientific Encounters in the Muslim and Christian Worlds, 500–1500
e-mail: kpark@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kpark@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
December 1, 2012–June 30, 2013): The Biological Categorization of El Indígena in the First Half of the 20th Century
Excellence Cluster 264 „Topoi“
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2008 - June 30, 2012): Contexts and Transformations of Social Psychology: Between Academic Culture and Socio-Economic Application
e-mail: aperlina@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: aperlina@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
(Visiting Scholar,
August 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013): Government of Techno-Science
e-mail: dpestre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dpestre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Union College, Schenectady
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2012, funded by the Union College, Schenectady): The Development of Computational Procedures and Numerical Tables in Sanskrit Mathematics in the Second Millenium
M.A., PhD candidate, Freie Universität Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012): Tentative Transgressions. Gaston Bachelard's Experimental Epistemology
University of Oxford (Mansfield College)
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - December 31, 2012): Role of Craftsmen and Artisans in the Natural Historical Collections of Sixteenth-Century Venice
e-mail: vpugliano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vpugliano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 10, 2012–June 30, 2013): Empires of Health and the Epidemic Governance of the Modern World
e-mail: jalmeida@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jalmeida@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Universität Bielefeld
(Visiting Scholar,
October 1, 2011 - October 31, 2012): History of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Dr., Honorary Professor for the History of Science at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Honorary Professor for Physics at the Free University Berlin, Adjunct Professor for Philosophy and Physics at the Boston University
(Director,
since March 1, 1994): History of Early Modern Mechanics, History of Relativity Theory; Interaction between Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the History of Science.
e-mail: renn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: renn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Honorarprofessor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der
TU Berlin, Dr. h.c. ETH Zürich
(Director,
since January 1, 1997): Epistemology of Experimentation
(Academic Officer,
March 1, 2008 - February 28, 2013, funded by the MPG): Open Access Initiative "ECHO – Cultural Heritage Online"
e-mail: rieger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: rieger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
January 15–February 28, 2013): The Change in the Concepts of Human Diversity in Africa in the 20th Century
Ph.D., Professor of History, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1–August 31, 2013): Toward a Quantitative History of Data
Bauhaus University Weimar
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1, 2012–June 30, 2013): Circulations of Knowledge in the History of Climate Modeling
Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the University of Damascus, Syria
(Visiting Scholar,
November 14, 2012–July 31, 2013): Cuneiform Texts from Ebla (Third Millenium B.C.)
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since July 1, 2003): Long-term development of spatial cognition; history of early modern mechanics; history of modern physics and astronomy; history of Chinese science
e-mail: schemmel@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schemmel@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1, 2011 - October 31, 2012): Populations and Persons in Biomedicine. Negotiating Difference in Clinical Practices
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1, 2012 - April 30, 2013): Fluid Mechanics in Times of War: Research Practices interacting Politics, Industry and the Military
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–March 1, 2013): Foundations of Ancient Geometry
Dipl. Soz.
(Head of the Library,
since September 1, 1994): Scientific Information Systems, Scientific Communication, Sociology and History of Science, Scientometrics.
e-mail: schoepfl@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schoepfl@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1–June 30, 2013): Tropical Love. Basel Nauralists, Dutch Imperialists and the "Discovery" of Celebes at around 1900
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1–May 31, 2013): Investigation of the Historical Technique of the Oil-resin Varnish Preparation in Prussia in the 18th Century
Dr. phil., Directeur de recherche, CNRS, Institut d'histoire du
temps présent, Paris ; Honorarprofessor für Neuere Geschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1, 2008 - December 31, 2012): Marc Bloch and Scientism
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1–July 31, 2013, funded by the Institute for Italian-German Historical Studies (ISIG), Trento): Art, Technique, and Erudition at Johannes Froben’s Printing Shop (1513 -1536)
Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2015): A Natural History of Data; Extinction and the Value of Diversity
e-mail: dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2014): Science for Women in the Spanish Country House (1780–1808)
e-mail: eserrano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: eserrano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Rathenau Senior Fellow,
since April 1, 2007): History of science after 1800: mathematics, physical sciences, philosophy; History of technology: electric power, energy and power, technological systems, technology in musems; History of biotechnology: databases, civil liberties, stock market, bioethics.
e-mail: skuli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: skuli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Associate Professor, University of Warwick
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1–June 30, 2013, funded by the University of Warwick): Breeding for the Fatherland: Bodies, Population and Politics in Enlightened Absolutist Germany
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics from the Cold War to the Present
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1, 2013–July 31, 2015, funded by the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung): Geometrie zwischen Universität und Handwerk: Transformationen mathematischen Wissens in mittelalterlicher Volumenmessung
e-mail: gstoreck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: gstoreck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Professor for the History of Biology and the Philosophy of Technology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(Visiting Scholar,
February 21–May 18, 2013): Cultural Anthropology meets Biological Markers: the Study of Mexican Indigenous Populations in the 1960s
e-mail: ediaz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: ediaz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Journalist in Residence
(Journalist in Residence,
May 1–June 30, 2013): Recherchen Forschungsprojekt zu Paul Kammerer sowie Vorbereitung und Durchführung des institutsinternen Workshops "Journalismus und Wissenschaftsgeschichte"
Ph.D., TOPOI Research Group E II (Excellence Cluster 264)
(Visiting Scholar,
September 14, 2008–June 30, 2013): Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Anthropology, Spatial Language and Concepts of Space, Topological Relations, Semiotics, History of Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Linguistic Relativity
e-mail: mthiering@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mthiering@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
M.A.
(Research Scholar,
January 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014): DM2E and TextGrid
e-mail: kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1–July 30, 2013)
Dr., Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam
(Dilthey Fellowship Research Group Leader,
September 1, 2011–August 31, 2016, funded by the Volkswagenstiftung): The Making of Acoustics in 16th to 19th Century Europe
e-mail: tkaczyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: tkaczyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Warburg Institute, University of London
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014): Around Lomazzo: artists' education and appropriation of knowledge in sixteenth-century Milan
e-mail: btramelli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: btramelli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
FU-Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2008 – June 30, 2012): Knowledge transfer in the Renaissance: Thomas Alvarus, Natural Philosophy and the Artist's Faculty
Ph.D., Lecturer, Institute for Planetary Geodesy, TU Dresden
(Research Scholar,
August 1 - December 31, 2012): Episteme in Motion
Ph.D. Student, TU Berlin;
Computer Engineer
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2010 - June 30, 2014, funded by the McGill University, Montreal, Canada): Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since October 15, 1998): Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1, 2013–April 30, 2014): The Tradition of the Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams
Rutgers University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1–June 30 and September 1–June 30, 2013, partly funded by the Mellon Foundation): Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Polio Epidemics in Cold War Hungary 1952–1963
e-mail: dvargha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dvargha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., ICREA Research Professor
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 – February 17 and June 24 – August 31, 2013): The Cerebral Subject: Brain, Self and Body in History and Contemporary Culture; Endangerment and its Consequences
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
IHPST, University of Toronto, Canada
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1–July 31, 2013): A Disc of Rubber or a Plug of Cotton-Wool: Expertise and the Artificial Tympanum as a Relief for Deafness
e-mail: jvirdi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jvirdi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr. phil., Historian of Science, Merchant Marine Captain
(Visiting Scholar,
March 9, 2012–April 30, 2014): History of Cosmography/Geography, History of Natural Philosophy, European Expansion and Cultural Contact
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 15, 1994): History of Mathematics and Science in the 19th and 20th Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012–August 31, 2014): Women and the Spread of Biomedical Knowledge in Colonial Uganda
e-mail: kvongsathorn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kvongsathorn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Professorin für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
(Research Scholar,
since October 1, 1995): History of Philosophy in Connection with History of Science; Epistemological Fundamentals and Problems of Physics; German Idealism; Classical Natural Philosophy.
e-mail: wahsner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: wahsner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Pitzer College, Claremont
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013, funded by the Humboldt Foundation): Leibniz in the Harz: History, Invention, and the Archives of Nature
Harvard University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2012 - August 31, 2013): A Cultural History of Breathing
Ph.D., Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science University of Chicago
MA, Philosophy
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - January 31, 2013): John La Farge, William James, and the Search for Truth in Art, Science, and Philosophy; The Anthropocene Project
e-mail: cwatson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: cwatson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
May 1, 2011–December 31, 2014)
e-mail: hwendt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hwendt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 15–June 30, 2013): Modeling Utopia in Early Modern England
PhD, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy
(Research Scholar,
February 1 - December 31, 2012): Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013)
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2009–April 30, 2013): Scandalous Subjects: Island Lives and Demographic Anxieties from Race to Development in Melanesia
e-mail: awidmer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: awidmer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2008 - December 31, 2012): Max Planck Digital Library
e-mail: jwillenborg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jwillenborg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dipl. Phys.
(Research Scholar,
since January 1, 2000): Information Technology Group (Head)
e-mail: dwinter@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: dwinter@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1, 2011–October 31, 2014, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft): Thinking matter versus physical influx. Core debates in German philosophy of mind, ca. 1750–1800
e-mail: wunder@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: wunder@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1–March 31, 2013): Ideal of Proof: Forensic Knowledge Between Theory and Practice in Late Imperial China
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since January 1, 2008): Translating Everyday Experience into Social Knowledge: Central European Feuilleton Culture around 1900
e-mail: hjziemer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hjziemer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
