Department I: Scholars in Residence
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn, Executive Director
Please mail to Ms. P. Schröter, Secretary: renn.office@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
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 8, 2012–February 24, 2013)
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
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
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
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
(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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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., 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
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
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,
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)
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
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
(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
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, 2012 - April 30, 2013): Fluid Mechanics in Times of War: Research Practices interacting Politics, Industry and the Military
(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
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
Ph.D, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
(Visiting Scholar,
May 1–July 30, 2013)
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
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
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., 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
Dr.
(Research Scholar,
May 1, 2011–December 31, 2014)
e-mail: hwendt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
e-mail: hwendt@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
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
