Local e-mail adresses of visiting scholars and research fellows will work from date of arrival.
Ph.D., Professor Associado, Universidade de São Paulo
(Visiting Scholar,
December 14, 2011 - February 29, 2012)
PhD. University of Chicago; Associate Professor, Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2011): Tears in Time: The Archival Imaginary of Post-War French Cinema
Ph.D.
(Research Group Director,
November 1, 2010 - January 31, 2016): The Writing of Deaf-Muteness and the Construction 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., Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
(Visiting Scholar,
June 20 - July 20, 2012): The Einstein Paradox
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1, 2005 - September 30, 2012, funded by the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft): Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics from Boltzmann to Planck
e-mail: mbadino@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: mbadino@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 24 - May 31, 2012): Color, Vision, and the Eye in Late Sixteenth-Century Padua
e-mail: tbaker@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: tbaker@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
December 1, 2010 - August 31, 2012): Biological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture
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, 2012): Epistemic History of Architecture
e-mail: becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2013): The Regulatory Archive: Conservation Biology and the State of Endangerment
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1 - December 31, 2011)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2012): Archiving Indigeneity: Language Documentation and the Pragmatics of Decolonization
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History of Science, History of Medicine Program, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1 - June 30, 2012): Perfecting the arts in eighteenth-century Paris: Craft knowledge and the sciences at the Societé des Arts
Ph.D., Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1 - May 31, 2012): Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving and Representing Geographical Knowledge
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
Ph.D., Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS, Paris, France
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 - June 30, 2012, funded by the CNRS): Brownian Motion Research c. 1900
University of Alberta, Canada
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1 - May 31, 2012): The Pharmacogenomic and Epidemiological Concepts of Human Genetic Variation in the Development of Personalized Medicine.
e-mail: sblacker@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: sblacker@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Spring 2012, funded by the DAAD)
Dr. rer. nat.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012, funded by the FHI (partially)): Geschichte der Quantenfeldtheorie und der Quantengravitation
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
Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012): Character Drives: Vitality and the Victorian Novel
(Research Scholar,
January 11, 2010 - June 30, 2012): Max Planck Digital Library
New York University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
Dipl. Phys., Dr. des.
(Research Scholar,
July 1, 2004 - December 31, 2012): Early Modern Mechanics
e-mail: buettner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: buettner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1, 2011 - February 29, 2012): The Adolescent Daydreamer
e-mail: fcallard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: fcallard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
(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
PD Dr.
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1 - December 31, 2012, 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
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2014, funded by the Minerva Program of the Max Planck Society): Constructions of the Brain: Critical Neuroscience and the Adolescent Brain
e-mail: schoudhury@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schoudhury@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
February 1 - February 28, 2012): The Co-Transmission of Mediaeval Paint Recipes as an Indicator of the Inter-Penetration of Colour Theory, Artists’ Practical Knowledge and Domestic Science
Assistant Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
February 1 - June 30, 2012): Print Seriality and Epistemologies of Search during the Nineteenth Century
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
PD Dr.
(Research Scholar,
January 1, 1997 - November 20, 2011): History of Science and Education, Individual and Historical Development of Cognition, Genesis of Writing and Arithmetic, History of Mathematics and Physics in Ancient and Early Modern Period.
e-mail: damerow@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: damerow@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
(Director,
since July 15, 1995): Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
February 1 - May 31, 2012): The Physician and the Passions: Techniques of the Self in 18th Century English and French Medical Treatises
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
Artist in Residence
(Artist in Residence,
March 1 - June 30, 2012): The Light of Things Hoped for...
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, ISCTE/IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
(Visiting Scholar,
July 10 - August 10, 2012): Circulation in Nineteenth-Century France: Blood, Water, and Railroads
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Institute for Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
(Research Group Director,
July 1, 2011 - September 30, 2016)
Professor, President and Director Emer. of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
(Visiting Scholar,
August 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011): The University of the 21st Century: An Aspect of the Globalized World
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1 - April 30, 2012): Strangelovean Science Book Project
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 15 - April 15, 2012): Material Properties and Subjective Experiences: Gustav Zeiller's Anatomical Wax Models
Ph.D., Professor for Mathematics and Research Director CNRS, Paris, France
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1 - May 31, 2012): D'Alembert and the Problem of Deduction from New Principles
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
January 6 - February 17, 2012): Wilhelm von Humboldt and the human diversity
Dr., Prof. of Physics at the Philipps-Universität Marburg
(Visiting Scholar,
February 15 - September 30, 2012): History and Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
Ph.D., Curator
(Curator in Residence,
March 1 - March 31, 2012): Exhibition development: Displaying the history of human-animal relations from a biomedical and post-humanist perspective
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2013)
PD Dr.
(Visiting Scholar,
March 1 - June 30, 2012): Archival Culture in Early Modern Europe: New approaches to an old topic
Columbia University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1 - December 31, 2011 and May 1 - June 30, 2012): Epistemologies of the Living and the Emergence of Biopolitical Thinking
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
(Master Student,
January 1 - May 31, 2012)
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
October 1, 2004 - February 28, 2014): History of the biomedical institutes in Berlin-Buch
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1 - June 30, 2012): Intelligenz und Rasse. Franz Boas' psychologischer Antirassismus zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, 1910-1940"
Assistant Professor of History (New York University)
Ph.D., Humanities Center (Johns Hopkins University), 2008
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2011, funded by the New York University): Constructions of the "New Man" in European Thought and Culture
Ph.D., Professor of History, Princeton University, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
University of Chicago, USA
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1 - June 30, 2012): Communicating Subjective Vision
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
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1 - December 31, 2011, funded by the DAAD and UC Berkeley ): The Social Origins of Life Science Disciplines in Nineteenth-Century Germany
(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
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1 - November 30, 2011 and January 1 - March 31, 2012): Tracing the Origins of Normativity and Individual Choice in Cold War Economics
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 - May 31, 2011, funded by the Excellence Cluster Topoi): The Establishment and Reconstruction of Copernicanism from the 16th to the 18th Century
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1 - April 30, 2012): Archival Reasoning: Astronomy, Chronology, History
Ph.D., Associate Professor
(Visiting Scholar,
June 4 - July 4, 2012): Theorizing the Surveillance Society: Bodies of Data and 'Data Bodies' in the 1970s.
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1, 2008 - September 30, 2012, funded by the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Federal University of Bahia, Institute of Physics.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
February 1 - July 31, 2012, funded by the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education - CAPES): Where Physics meets Biology: some historical and contemporary perspectives
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
February 15, 2007 - November 30, 2012, funded by the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft): The genesis of wave mechanics: Erwin Schrödinger's research notebooks; The transfer of concepts between high-energy and condensed-matter physics and the advent of quantum field theoretical methods in solid-state physics
e-mail: cjoas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: cjoas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2013)
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
Ph.D., Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Professor of Classics, Princeton University, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
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
Dept. Of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012, funded by the DAAD): Bringing Chymistry into Shape: The Ideas, Intellectual Context,
and Influence of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637)
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
Institute of History, University of Vienna, Austria
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1 - April 30, 2012): The Development of Modern Mathematical Physics in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Dr. des.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1, 2008 - May 31, 2012): Paul Valéry’s Cahiers: Drawing and Writing as a Practice of Thought
Dr. phil.
(Visiting Scholar,
November 1, 2011 - October 31, 2012, funded by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Historical Epistemology of Hearing (1850-2000)
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - June 30, 2012): Knowing. Learning. Ruling. The Development of a Special Language in 12th Century Pipe Rolls.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - June 30, 2012): Early modern science in the Ottoman Empire
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012): All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929-1989
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
December 10, 2011 - January 14, 2012): Reformulating Race: The Visualization of Human Diversity in Greek Primary School Science Textbooks
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 - September 30, 2012, funded by the German-Israeli Foundation): History and philosophy of modern physics
e-mail: lehner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: lehner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., SPAN, Northwestern University, Il, USA
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
June 1 - July 31, 2012): Contesting the 'Laws of Life': Sexual Science and Sexual Politics in the Early Twentieth Century
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014)
e-mail: kleonhard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kleonhard@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr., Professor of History of Knowledge, Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.
(Research Group Director,
March 1, 2009 - August 31, 2014): Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century
e-mail: vlipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vlipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2008 - March 31, 2012): Compositional Listening: The Keyboard Arrangement in the Nineteenth Century
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2007 - October 31, 2012, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung as from November 2010): Dream Watchers. A History of Modern 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
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - April 30, 2012)
M.A.
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013): Immunology in Berlin-Buch, 1950-1990
e-mail: smeyer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: smeyer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Professor of Liberal Arts, Berkeley College, Adjunct Instructor, New York University, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
February 1 - February 29, 2012): Corporealism: Sensory Classification, Embodied Knowledge, and the Origins of Anthropology
Ph.D., Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford, UK
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
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)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2011 - March 3, 2012): Concrete figures and abstract spaces: the differing conception of geometry in Berkeley and Reid
Dr. phil.
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012)
e-mail: smuewi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: smuewi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1, 2009 - June 30, 2011, funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung): Early Quantum Physics in Britain
e-mail: jnavarro@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: jnavarro@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 12 - July 15, 2012)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1 - April 30, 2012): Antonio de’ Medici and the Art of Alchemy
Ph.D.
(Visiting Scholar,
October/November 2011, February and May/June 2012): 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): Imperial systematization of the past: Textual practices and canon formation at the Byzantine court
PD Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since June 15, 2005): Baby Science in fin-de-siècle America
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
November 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012): 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
Ph.D. Professor for Applied Mathematics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
(Visiting Scholar,
February 15 - May 15, 2012): Complexity and Uncertainty in Climate Models
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
Department of History, University of Warwick
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
November 1 - December 31, 2011): Visualising the Pox in London c. 1780-1860
Excellence Cluster 264 „Topoi“
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2008 - March 31, 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
Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Venice, Italy
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
M.A., PhD candidate, Freie Universität Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - April 30, 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., Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1 - July 31, 2012): Dangerous Bodies, Dangerous Cities.
Dr., Professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld
(Visiting Scholar,
October 1, 2011 - October 31, 2012): History of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - June 30, 2012): Knowing. Learning. Ruling. The Development of a Special Language in 12th Century Pipe Rolls.
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
(Executive 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
Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Sociology of Science at the National Technical University of Athens
(Visiting Scholar,
June 1 - July 15, 2012)
e-mail: rentetzi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: rentetzi@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 "European Cultural Heritage Online" (ECHO)
e-mail: rieger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: rieger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
June 1 - October 31, 2012): Art, Optics, and Practical Mathematics. Artists' Collections in the Early Modern Netherlands
Ph.D., Arthur J. Conner Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Visiting Scholar,
January 9 - February 9, 2012): Making Animals Wild
M.A., Bauhaus University Weimar
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - August 31, 2012): Circulations of Knowledge in the History of Climate Modeling
Dr., Professorin für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Wien
(Visiting Scholar,
July 1 - September 30, 2012)
Dr.
(TOPOI Research Group Director (Excellence Cluster 264),
April 1, 2008 - October 31, 2012): 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 - December 31, 2011): Populations and Persons in Biomedicine. Negotiating Difference in Clinical Practices.
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2011): Max Planck Digital Library
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
Dr.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
March 1 - May 31, 2012)
e-mail: schwerin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schwerin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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 - May 31, 2012): Marc Bloch and Scientism
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 15, 1994): History of Mathematics and Physics (16th and 17th Centuries).
e-mail: schueller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: schueller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
(Visiting Scholar,
September 1 - December 31, 2011): The Earth as Archive: Representing the Fossil Record in Paleontology, 1859 - Present
(Visiting Scholar,
April 1 - August 31, 2012): Historisch-textkritische Untersuchung zum Briefwechsel des Astronomen Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687)
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
Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Greek Literature and Linguistics, University of Leiden, Netherlands
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
January 2 - February 28, 2012, funded by the DAAD): Comets and Wondrous Signs in the Sky: Natural History and Religious Polemic in Early Modern Germany and France
Ph.D., TOPOI Research Group E II (Excellence Cluster 264)
(Visiting Scholar,
September 14, 2008 - October 31, 2012): 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): Max Planck Digital Library
e-mail: kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: kthoden@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Dr.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2016, funded by the Volkswagenstiftung, Dilthey Fellowship): Acoustic Theatre, 1750-1930
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, 2012): 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
Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
(Visiting Scholar,
January 1 - June 30, 2012): Poe's American Experiments
FU-Berlin
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
October 1, 2008 - March 31, 2012): Knowledge transfer in the Renaissance: Thomas Alvarus, Natural Philosophy and the Artist's Faculty
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 15, 2008 - May 14, 2011): The Impact of Geographical Knowledge on the Generalization of Spatial Concepts
PhD Student, TU Berlin;
Computer Engineer
(Research Scholar,
March 1, 2010 - June 30, 2014, funded by the McGill University, Montreal, Canada): Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1, 2010 - June 30, 2012): Imaging and cataloguing cuneiform texts for the CDLI
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since October 15, 1998): Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Aristotle's Mechanics, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics
Rutgers University
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
January 1 - June 30, 2012): 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
Dr.
(Visiting Scholar,
October 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012): Ethnologie und Anthropologie im deutsch-russischen Wissenstransfer: Transregionale Beziehungen im 18. und (frühen) 19. Jahrhundert
PD Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since September 1, 1999): The cerebral subject: Brain, self and body in history and contemporary culture
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Department of History - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
January 3 - February 29, 2012, funded by the CAPES-DAAD)
e-mail: acvgomes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: acvgomes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Wolfson College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
Dr. phil., Historian of Science, Merchant Marine Captain
(Visiting Scholar,
March 9, 2012 - February 28, 2013): 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; Gender Studies
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ph.D. Cantab
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
July 1 - August 31, 2012): Learned Practices of Canonical Texts
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
The Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012): Sino-German Comparative Study
Ph.D., Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science University of Chicago
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2011 - August 31, 2012): Drawing from Life: John La Farge, William James, and the search for truth in art, science and philosophy
Ph.D., Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
(Visiting Scholar,
July 6 - August 17, 2012): Johann Bixtorf and his Copybook
Dr.
(Lorenz Krüger Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
May 1, 2011 - April 30, 2013)
Ph.D.
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013)
PhD, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, Italy
(Research Scholar,
February 1 - December 31, 2012): Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe
Ph.D.
(Research Scholar,
September 1, 2009 - December 31, 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
(Predoctoral Research Fellow,
September 1, 2009 - March 31, 2012, funded by the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft): Continuity and Discontinuity during the Darwinian Revolution. An analysis of public and scientific reception and impact of Darwin's Origin based on a novel framework of scientific theories
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
since January 1, 2008): Outreach and Cooperation
e-mail: hjziemer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hjziemer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
