Personen
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mai–Jul 2025)
Mapping as a Mind-Science: varietas and the Humanist habitus in Latinate Geography Textbooks
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2022–Sep 2025)
Global Linkages of Chinese Climate Science and Policies
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr–Mai 2025)
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies on Schizophrenia
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2017–Okt 2026)
MPRG Historical EpistemoloScientific Questions Then and Now. / Fragen der Wissenschaft – Damals und Heute.
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar–Dez 2025)
Celestial Clerks: Astrologer Families in Service to Timurid Rulers (1400–1500)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2019–Sep 2025)
Exploring the Highest Energies in the Universe: An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic-Ray Astronomy
Media Officer
Multimedia Production, Video and Audio Communication
Predoctoral Scholar
Europe’s Research Collaboration with China, 1993-2023: People, Practice and Policy
Predoctoral Scholar
Against Reliability: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Clinical Trials
Predoctoral Scholar (Okt 2023–Mar 2027)
Women in British and American astronomical fieldwork in the nineteenth century
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Evolution of Culturalism: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar–Aug 2025)
Darkening the Heavens: Premodern Cosmologies and Modern Questions
Data Protection Coordinator (Since Jan 2024)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jun 2023–Sep 2025)
Overseas Development, Foreign Areas and Chinese "World-Writing
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2020–Sep 2025)
The Reforms of the National Science System of China—Global Models and National Interpretations
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Okt 2023–Jan 2026)
Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business
Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Jul 1995)
Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Aug 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III - working group "Proteins and Fibers": "Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber"
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2023–Dez 2028)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2023–Jun 2025)
Rhône Glacier: A Life in Glaciology
Publications Manager
Predoctoral Scholar
Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2024–Apr 2025)
Field Allocation Maps in the Popular Ming Dynasty Encyclopedia and their Afterlife
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
Research Officer (Feb 2022–Dez 2027)
Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr–Jul 2025)
Un/sichtbare Strahlen — Visualisierungstechniken von Umweltwissen in der modernen Radiästhesie. Zum Einfluss außerakademischer Wissensformen auf forschende Zeichnungspraktiken und ihre aktuelle Rezeption als Kunst im Anthropozän.
Predoctoral Fellow (2 Jan–Mai 2025)
Making Danger: Biological Weapons Research, Biosafety, and the Management of Microbial Life, 1940-1990
Research Scholar
Scales of Validity
Postdoctoral Scholar
Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China
Research Scholar
A Sense for Statistics in Modern India: Quantifying Communal Identities and Differences
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
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2020–Sep 2025)
Scientific Journals and the Transparency of Research: From 20th Century to Open Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mai 2024–Okt 2026)
Israel's AI's and Energy policies: Different Rationalities?
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ogallala Inc.: Race, Work, and the Making of America’s Red Meat Capital
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
Ignorance in the Age of Text: “Ignorant” Readers and Their Reading in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Deputy Head of Communications
Research Communication; Science and Society; Public Outreach
Predoctoral Scholar (Mai 2021–Apr 2025)
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Postdoctoral Scholar
Archival Dispossessions: Archives, Empire, and the Epistemological Limits of the Nation-State
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
Beyond Leaves: Cultivating Knowledge in Books of Hours (1470–1520)
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
The Politics of Music Capturing. Music Information Retrieval and Ethnomusicological Research, 1900–1970
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2020–Dez 2025)
The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2023–Jun 2026)
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science
Research Group Leader
Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (17 Mar–Jun 2025)
History of early Greek philosophy as a disciplinary problem
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2022–Sep 2025)
Open Science in University-Industry Research Collaboration in the EU and China
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2020–Feb 2026)
Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise
Departmental Assistant (Mai 2023–Apr 2025)
Predoctoral Scholar
Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US
Research Scholar (Sep 2022–Aug 2025)
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
External Scientific Member (Jun 2020–Mai 2027)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025–Mar 2026)
New Perspectives on the Symbolism of the Eclipse Dragon (jawzahr) in the Islamic Literature
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2024–Sep 2025)
For everything in nature goes to infinity: Leibniz's Network and the Introduction of Infinity into Nature
Management Officer
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025–Feb 2026)
Of Monkeys and Primatologies: An Anthropological Study of the Encounters Between Practices and Regimes of Knowledge
Research Scholar
From the Cell to the Microbiome: Agency, Reactivity, and Incorporation in the History of Biomedicine
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
Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Apr 2022)
A Phenomenology of the Experiment
Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate
Reckoning with Deep Time
Postdoctoral Scholar
Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jun 2024–Mai 2026)
Rolling the Planets, Moving the Heavens: The Astral Science of Play in Early Modern South Asia
IT Security Officer (Since Jan 2023)
Senior Research Fellow (Mai 2022–Dez 2025)
Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2021–Jul 2025)
The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024–Aug 2025)
At Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact
Rathenau Senior Fellow (Feb 2019–Dez 2025)
History of Mathematics and Physics (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century), History of Technology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2025–Dez 2027)
Industryscapes: Socio-Natural Sites of Extraction, Production, and Knowledge Making
Max Planck India Mobility Fellow (Jan 2025–Dez 2027)
An Oral History of Indian Conservation Biology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jul 2020–Sep 2025)
The Merton Project: Science and Political Regimes in the 21st Century
Research Program Coordinator
BMBF Project: Knowledge for Academic Cooperation: Research-based and Action-Guiding China Expertise for German Science Organizations
Publications Manager
Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body
Postdoctoral Fellow (Aug 2023–Jul 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mai–Jul 2025)
Cosmology at Work: Illustrations of the Seasons in Late Imperial China
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)
Principal Investigator
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2021–Aug 2025)
Global Health and Biomedical Research in the Cold War Era
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2023–Sep 2025)
Number Governance: The Institutionalization of Journal Metrics in the Chinese Science Assessment
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Okt 2022–Sep 2025)
Ecologies of Skins
Postdoctoral Scholar
Agreement and Disagreement: Late Scholastic scientia in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Research Scholar
Research IT
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mai 2023–Sep 2025)
PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024–Dez 2026)
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2023–Sep 2025)
The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Digital Humanities Scholar (Mar 2017–Feb 2028)
IT-Architekt im Projekt Household Encyclopedia
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Mar 2026)
Colorful Encounters: Nature, Science, and Dyes between Europe and China, 1880–1950
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024–Sep 2025)
Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
Senior Research Scholar, Head of Research Communication and Management
Outreach and Cooperation