Doktorand*innen

Die Doktorand*innen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Predoctoral Scholars, Predoctoral Fellows und Visiting Predoctoral Fellows), arbeiten an Dissertationsprojekten, die einen wesentlichen Teil der Forschungsprojekte des Instituts bilden. Alle Doktorand*innen des MPIWG gehören einer Abteilung, einer Forschungsgruppe oder der Internationalen Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) des Instituts an und führen ihr Projekt als Teil der Forschungsaktivitäten ihrer Einheit durch. Zudem treffen sie sich im Rahmen der abteilungsübergreifenden Aktivitäten des Instituts zu einem monatlichen Kolloquium. Während dieser Treffen stellt gewöhnlich eine Person ihre Arbeit oder Arbeitsproben vor, oder es werden ausgewählte Texte oder Filme diskutiert. Der Rahmen ist informell gehalten, um einen offenen und kooperativen Rahmen zum Austausch zu bieten. Zudem dienen die Treffen dem Gespräch über das Leben und Arbeiten als Doktorand*in im Allgemeinen und in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Besonderen.

Neben dem monatlichen Kolloquium sind alle Doktorand*innen des Instituts eingeladen, sich den "Writing Wednesdays" anzuschließen, die jeden Mittwoch ganztägig im Seminarraum der IMPRS in der Boltzmannstraße 16 stattfinden.

Die Aktivitäten der Doktorand*innen am Institut werden von der Koordinatorin der IMPRS koordiniert, Sophie Schwarzmaier, zusammen mit dem Doktorand*innenvertreter des Instituts, Christopher Klauke. Sie beantworten gerne Fragen zum Leben und Arbeiten als Doktorand*in am MPIWG.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Group Foto of MPIWG Predoctoral Fellows

MPIWG Predoctoral Fellows 2022–23. Source: MPIWG, September 2022

Doctoral Students

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2024 - Sep 2025)

Predoctoral Scholar (Jun 2020 - Mai 2025)

Europe’s Research Collaboration with China, 1993-2023: People, Practice and Policy

Predoctoral Scholar (Mai 2022 - Apr 2025)

Assessing Certainty without Certainty: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Biomedical Research Data and its Role in the Emergence of Scientific Dissent

Predoctoral Scholar (Okt 2023 - Mar 2027)

Women in British and American astronomical fieldwork in the nineteenth century

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Feb 2028)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Okt 2023 - Jan 2026)

Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business

Predoctoral Scholar (Nov 2018 - Dez 2025)

Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium

Predoctoral Scholar (Nov 2020 - Feb 2025)

An Interplay between Chinese Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine from the 18th to Early 20th Century

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Feb 2026)

“Usual Suspects” in “Unusual Locations”: Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Expertise in the Late Ottoman Empire (1855–1922)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2020 - Sep 2025)

The Geopolitics of Chinese Arctic Research

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2023 - Dez 2024)

The Unity of Science in the Anthropocene

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2023 - Jan 2025)

Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2020 - Sep 2025)

Forging ahead under a Changing Sky: Meteorological Services and Crop Seed Breeding as Climate Change Adaptation in China

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023 - Aug 2026)

Cellulosenitrat: Eine Materialgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften, 1849–1951

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Aug 2027)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2020 - Sep 2025)

Scientific Journals and the Transparency of Research: From 20th Century to Open Science

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Feb 2026)

Ignorance in the Age of Text: “Ignorant” Readers and Their Reading in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mai 2024 - Jan 2025)

S.N. Gupta and the quantization of Einstein’s gravity

Predoctoral Scholar (Mai 2021 - Apr 2025)

Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023 - Aug 2026)

Beyond Leaves: Cultivating Knowledge in Books of Hours (1470–1520)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Aug 2027)

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Feb 2026)

The Politics of Music Capturing. Music Information Retrieval and Ethnomusicological Research, 1900–1970

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Feb 2028)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2022 - Sep 2025)

Open Science in University-Industry Research Collaboration in the EU and China

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Dez 2023 - Dez 2024)

Predoctoral Scholar (Aug 2020 - Aug 2025)

Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Jan 2025)

Effective Field Theories and Relational Paradigms

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Aug 2027)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023 - Aug 2026)

Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1882–1952

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Feb 2026)

Science before Nature: An Epistemology of Perspectives in the Commentaries of Cuneiform Scholarly Traditions

Predoctoral Scholar (Okt 2023 - Mar 2027)

Tracing an Epistemic Genre: Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections as Resources of Knowledge

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Apr 2019 - Dez 2024)

Symbiotic Worlding: Theories and Practices of Coexistence in Lynn Margulis and Donna Haraway

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2021 - Jul 2025)

The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Okt 2023 - Dez 2024)

The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023 - Aug 2026)

Contestation of Knowledge in the Collection and Exhibition of Indigenous Objects by Catholic Mission Museums

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020 - Sep 2025)

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

Predoctoral Scholar (Jan 2023 - Dez 2025)

The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)

Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2024 - Feb 2025)

Bridging Environmental Movements with Arts-Based Research

Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Feb 2025)

Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Mar 2026)

Colorful Encounters: Nature, Science, and Dyes between Europe and China, 1880–1950

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024 - Jan 2025)

Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations