In einem Jahr arbeiten ca. 200-300 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter (wissenschaftlich / nicht-wissenschaftlich) am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG). Diese Liste enthält alle Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sowie Gäste, die 2017-18 am Institut sind. Die Aktivitäten der Abteilungen und Forschungsgruppen werden unterstützt durch die Verwaltung (geleitet von Claudia Paaß), den Forschungskoordinator (Ohad Parnes), die Bibliothek (geleitet von Esther Chen), vom Leiter Kooperationen und Kommunikation (Hansjakob Ziemer) und den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern der Forschungs-IT und dem IT-Support (geleitet von Jürgen Renn).
Personen
Visiting Scholar (30 Okt-14 Dez 2018)
Science in Conservation-Cluster, im Rahmen der Working Group The Art of Judgement: Menagerie - People and Wildlife in the American City
Visiting Scholar (12 Sep-12 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Milton H. Wilson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of History, Northwestern University
A History of Artificial Beings
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr.
The Physician's Album Amicorum: Humanist Cultures of Knowledge Networking
Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2017-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte
The Status of Practical Geometry and its Relations to Theoretical and Applied Geometrical Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Treatises of Practical Geometry
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Sep-2 Okt 2018)
PhD
Beyond the Canon: Towards a History of Mathematical Practices in India
Research Scholar (1 Okt 2014-31 Mai 2022)
PD Dr.
History of the Max Planck Society
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Sep 2019)
Ph.D.
Climatic Effects: Architecture, Media and the Planetary Imaginary
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-15 Sep 2018)
Dr., Associate Professor
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Dez 2018)
PhD
Architects and Engineers between Analytical Mechanics and Graphical Thinking
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Dez 2019)
PhD
Architects and Engineers between Analytical Mechanics and Graphical Thinking
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2018)
PhD. Professor of History, University of Paris 1
Mesmerism and Politics on the Eve of the French Revolution
Research Scholar, IT Architect (15 Mai 2017-14 Mai 2019)
MRes, MSc, MA, BSc
Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2017-31 Jan 2023)
PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Jul 2019)
PhD
Mapping the Arab City: Alexandria, Cairo and Tunis in the Early Modern Period
Research Scholar (Since Apr 2012)
PD Dr. habil.
Visualizations of the Heavens and Their Material Cultures in Eurasia and North Africa (4,000 BCE-1700 CE)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Catherine Mills Davis Professor of Music, Wellesley College
Liberal Sound: Milton Babbitt and the RCA Synthesizer
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Jul-3 Sep 2018)
PhD. Lecturer in Music, Queen's University Belfast
Tactile Speech
TOPOI Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2012-31 Dez 2018)
Dipl. Phys.
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Professor Emerita of History, University of California at Davis, USA
Medieval Science on the Road to Maturity
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2018)
PhD. Professor and Director of Research, CNRS, France
Mathematical Commentaries in the Ancient World
Research Scholar (1 Mai 2016-30 Sep 2019)
PhD
The Earth in the Sky is like the Yolk of the Egg in the Egg White. Natural Philosophy in the Polemics of the Muslims of Medieval Iberia
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2017-30 Sep 2018)
PhD
Kunstwissenschaft c. 1900 as a "Transcultural" View of Art 'avant la lettre'
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Mai 2019)
PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada
The Landscapes of Colony-Building in the North Atlantic: People, Plance, and Environment in Early Modern French Newfoundland
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Hidden Reserves in Socialist Planning: From Historical Consciousness to Science and Expertise
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2018-31 Jul 2019)
Dr.
The Encompassing Notion of Global Stress
Director (Since Jul 1995)
PhD, Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (22 Aug-5 Sep 2018)
PhD., Associate Professor, Fine Arts Faculty in Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha
In Camera Out / Camera obscura interactive database and timeline
Visiting Scholar (24 Sep-7 Okt 2017)
PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad de Sevilla
The Epistemological Transformation of Mechanics in the Nineteenth Century: Interactions between Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2018-31 Dez 2019)
CR1 Senior Research Fellow (tenured), CNRS–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University Diderot, Paris, France
The Development of the Euclidean Mathematical Tradition in the Early Modern Age: Translation, Transmission and Transformation of the Text of the Elements
Research Scholar (1 Jul 2016-30 Jun 2020)
PhD
Transmission and History of Antique Scientific Texts such as Ptolemy’s Geography, using Computational Humanities
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul-16 Sep 2018)
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex
Sound, Materiality and the Social Lives of Objects
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Jul 2019)
PhD
The Liver in Egypt - Productions of an Organ through 20th-century Public Health and Political Economy
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., The Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France
Chinese Maps Collected by the MPIWG
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Mai 2019)
Ph.D.
Wild silk of West Africa: towards an indigenous science of materials
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-31 Dez 2018)
PhD, Senior Researcher, St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science
The scientific and cultural phenomenon of European bison in the 19th - early 20th century
Visiting Scholar (17 Jun-21 Okt 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel
The Disciplinarization of the Sciences: Pre-classical Mechanics between the Sovereign State and the Reformed Catholic Religion: 1550-1650
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Jan 2019)
Ph.D. candidate, University of Columbia
Agents of Violence: Naval Technology and Late Qing China in Global Arms Trade, 1875-1911
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Sep 2017)
Professor Emeritus
"Fictions" in the Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century
Research Scholar (6 Nov 2017-31 Dez 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin
Edition Elkana and Krois: Rethinking the Political Epistemology of Enlightenment. Dialogues with Ernst Cassirer
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Aalto University
The uses and abuses of things: Reconceptualizing technology-in-use within the history of technology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-14 Sep 2020)
PhD
The Introduction of Emergentist Concepts into the Final Theory Program
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt-30 Nov 2018)
PhD candidate, Department of History, Central European University BUdapest
Rationality of Noise: Gathering of Acoustic Information during the Cold War
Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)
Dr.
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
Visiting Scholar (29 Jun-6 Sep 2018)
Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Medical Practice in 12th century China as reflected in Medical Case Records
Research Scholar (1 Jan 2018-31 Dez 2019)
PhD
Tuning the World: A Global History of Acoustics at the Crossroads of Aesthetics, Politics, Science and Industry (1834-1939)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep-14 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
The Art of Judgment in Wetlands
Visiting Scholar (20-27 Aug 2018)
The Evolution of the MPG’s Relation with Israeli Scientific Institutions in Comparison with the Development of MPG’s International Relations
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug-15 Sep 2018)
Doctoral student
The role of maps in 19th century plant geography
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai-31 Okt 2017)
MA, Doctoral Student, University of Cambridge
Serpents and Empire: Modern Encounters with Natural History, c. 1780-1870
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-19 Aug 2021)
PhD
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-10 Dez 2018)
PhD, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science & Technology, University of Manchester; Visiting Professor, Centre for History of Science, Technology & Medicine, Kings College, London
Could the social consequences of the Green Revolution have been anticipated?
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
Interplay Between Society, Technology, and Nature in the Chinese-Korean Borderland from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia, Lecturer, School for the History and Philosophy of Science
The Known and the Lived: Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, 1903 - 1945
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-30 Sep 2021)
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes ?
Visiting Scholar (24 Feb 2016-31 Dez 2018)
Prof. Dr. emeritus
Mitarbeit im Forschungsprofil moderne Physik der Abteilung sowie das von der PTB finanzierte Projekt "Geschichte der PTR im Dritten Reich"
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Technische Universität Berlin
Quantitative Physiological Reasoning at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: The Work of Sanctorius Sanctorius
Research Scholar, Communications Editor (1 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2019)
MSc
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, c. 1830–1920
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
Visiting Scholar (1 Dez 2016-31 Dez 2019)
Dr. phil., Professor Emeritus
Portraying, Connecting and Confronting Early Cultures of Organized Knowledge – and Drawing Consequences
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2017-31 Dez 2018)
Disaster Preparedness in Japan and Global Transfer of Knowledge, 1900-1965
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (6 Mai 2017-31 Mai 2019)
PhD, Doctoral Student, Technische Universität Berlin
Practical Knowledge between Field and Laboratory
Visiting Scholar (24 Aug-24 Sep 2017)
DPhil, Reader in Early Modern History, University of York
Early Modern Notions of Cleanliness and Dirt
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2016-31 Jul 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Cometary Pamphlets and the Way they Present, Create, and Diffuse Natural Philosophic Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (12 Aug 2018-31 Jul 2019)
Professor of History
The Max Planck Institutes and Early Postwar German Biochemical Research Networks
Journalist in Residence (22 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2019)
PhD
A History of Life and Earth
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2011-31 Jan 2020)
Dr.
History of Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (esp. Atomic Physics and Institutional and Social Aspects)
Visiting Scholar (4 Aug-4 Sep 2018)
From sonar to quartz clock: technology and physics in war, academy and industry
Visiting Scholar (22 Jan-31 Dez 2018)
Dr., Prof. em., Universität Bremen
The Power of Ethnological Interpretation of Human Behavior during the Cold War and beyond: Konrad Lorenz, Iräneus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Wolfgang Wickler and the MPI for Behavioral Physiology
Visiting Scholar (15 Sep-22 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., History Department of Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Derek Ratcliffe, Raptors and the History of Conservation Science
IT Researcher
MA
Event Recording, Reference Management, Media Library
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)
Columbia University, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Humanities
Kant on the Unity of Self-Consciousness in the Unity of Perception Kant's Theory of Moral Agency
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor of Philosophy
Deweyan pragmatism in the 21st Century
Senior Research Scholar (Since Jul 1998)
Prof. Dr., Außerordentliche Professorin an der Universität Konstanz
"Useful Sciences," State Bureaucracy, and Industrialization in Prussia (c. 1760–1830)
Senior Research Scholar (Since Jul 1998)
Prof. Dr., Außerordentliche Professorin an der Universität Konstanz
"Useful Sciences," State Bureaucracy, and Industrialization in Prussia (c. 1760–1830)
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2014-31 Mai 2021)
Prof. Dr., Berlin Social Science Center
History of the Max Planck Society
Research Scholar (18 Aug 2014-31 Dez 2022)
Gender Issues in the Hierarchy of the Max Planck Society, 1948–1998
Visiting Scholar (15 Mai 2018-31 Dez 2019)
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Nottingham
The History of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash) in East and West Germany during the Cold War
IT Researcher, Research Technology Officer (8 Aug 2016-7 Aug 2018)
PhD
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Sep 2018)
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Dept. of History and Philosohy of Science
'A sincere and and a faithful eye': Hand-Eye Co-ordination in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
Research Scholar (1 Jul 2013-31 Dez 2018)
PhD
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
John Bulwer (1606-1656): On the Theatricality of Medical Knowledge; Ciphers, Sounds and Ear Trumpets: Acoustics and Espionage in England, 1655-1685
Visiting Scholar (16 Mai 2018-31 Dez 2020)
Extended evolution theory of knowledge and computational history
Visiting Scholar (6 Sep 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr. phil.
Konkurrenzfähigkeit und Flexibilität im globalen Wettbewerb: Zur diskursiven Logik befristeter Verträge in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Visiting Scholar (Since Mar 2006)
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
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 (Fifteenth to Eighteenth centuries)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov-31 Dez 2018)
How did computers transform historians’ work?
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2017-31 Dez 2018)
PhD
Cosmochemistry and Astroparticle Research in the Max Planck Society
MPG Minerva Research Group Leader (1 Sep 2012-28 Feb 2019)
Dr. Phil.
Reading and Writing Medicine in Early Modern England
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2018-30 Jun 2019)
The Role of Mathematics in the Final Theory Program
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model: Acoustic Processing and Computational Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-14 Dez 2018)
PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor
Vegetable - Animal - Transformation
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb 2018-15 Feb 2019)
PhD
Umbrella Project: Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Geographical Fragments from Early Medieval China: Local Gazetteers before Local Gazetteers
Research Scholar (1 Okt 2018-14 Aug 2019)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (17 Sep 2017-31 Mar 2019)
PhD
On beyond IP as a Political Act
Visiting Student (1 Dez 2017-30 Nov 2018)
The Genesis of the CPT Theorem
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul-30 Sep 2018)
Dr. phil., Postdoc Researcher in the History of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
A Quiet Revolution: Singapore as a Logistics City, 1848-1914
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2017)
PhD, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCentre A. Koyré, Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques
Seizing the Intangible Gestures as Objects of the Human Sciences in the Long Nineteenth Century
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
Hortus Oceanus Indicus: The Calcutta Botanic Garden and the Making of the Indian Ocean Environment, 1786-1847
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (20 Apr-19 Okt 2018)
Ph.D
Transregional Artistic Knowledge in Renaissance Siena
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Jan 2019)
Ph.D., Emeritus Research Director, THALIM Research Unit, Paris
Theatrical Spoken-Word Records in Germany and France, 1950–1970: Repertoire, Production, Distribution, Use
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2018)
The Birth of the Individual Authorship in Medieval Judaism (10th-12th centuries) in the Baghdadian and Andalusian Islamicate milieux.
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
The shaping of generality in 19th century enumerative geometry
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (13 Mar 2017-12 Mar 2019)
PhD, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, Laboratoire SPHERE
Numerical Literacy in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2018)
Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th-century Meteorology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-30 Sep 2019)
Ph.D.
Early Modern Exchanges in Sanskrit Astral Sciences
(15 Aug 2016-28 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Visiting Scholar (1-16 Sep 2017)
PhD, Professor of History, University Foundation Professor
Paracelsus: Completing Nature, Recreating the Soul
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-1 Jun 2020)
Ph.D., Dr. phil., Professor of Greek Philology, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy
Commentaries on mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2020)
Transmission of Islamic Astronomy to Europe: Influence or Similarity of Structures?
Predoctoral Research Fellow (1 Mar 2018-28 Feb 2021)
Visiting Scholar (15 Sep-15 Dez 2018)
Ph.D.
The commentary on the De Sphaera of Sacrobosco written by Francesco Capuano da Manfredonia
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Senior Research Scholar (Since Jun 2005)
PD Dr.
The Science of Statistics and the Politics of Censustaking; Early Childhood Development Studies in Nineteenth-Century America
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
The Scientific Rationality of Early Statistics, 1833–1877
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of the History of Science
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (13 Sep-13 Nov 2018)
PhD candidate, Philosophy Department, Stanford University
The Magnetical Philosophy from Gilbert to Newton
Research Coordinator, Senior Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)
PhD, Honorary Associate Professor
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Sep 2018)
PhD, Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Paul E. Geier Director, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy
Architecture in Two Dimensions. From Drawing to Photography
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2017)
Doctoral Student, University of Vienna
Instituting Anthropology: The Circulation of Scientists and Ethnographic Materials between North America, German and Austria, 1883-1933
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D.
The Elk, the Tapir, their Hooves, and the Falling Sickness: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Program in History of Science, Princeton University
The Dark Glass: Alchemy in Image, Text and Practice
Visiting Scholar (22 Jun-21 Aug 2017)
PhD, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Harvard University
Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (1794–1863): Proto-digital Music Theory
Visiting Scholar (1 Okt 2011-31 Mai 2019)
Dr., Professor, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld
History of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-30 Nov 2018)
Princeton University, PhD candidate in History of Science
The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the Geistkreis from Vienna to the New-World, 1920-1980
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D.
Nature’s Imprint: Botanical Illustration between Northern Europe and the New World (1550-1750)
Director (Since Mar 1994)
Dr., Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
History of Early Modern Mechanics, History of Relativity Theory; Interaction between Cognitive and Contextual Factors in the History of Science
Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Feb 2014)
Dr., Honorarprofessor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der TU Berlin, Dr.h.c. ETH Zürich, MPIWG Director 1997-2014
Epistemology of Experimentation
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr 2018-31 Mar 2019)
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Professor
Generations of Reasons: A Family History
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2018-31 Mar 2019)
PhD candidate, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University
Doctors of l’Ésprit Nouveau: Human Energetics and the Formation of the French Avantgarde
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Jun 2019)
Ph.D., David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor, Department of History, Brown University
The Art of Judgement: Objects of Organization
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-31 Dez 2019)
Dr. phil.
The Anthropocene on Backstage: Tracing the Earth System before Earth System Science
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
A Transnational History of Mountaineering
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (8 Jan 2017-29 Feb 2020)
MA, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Politics, Discourses and Technologies of the “New” in Postwar “New Music"
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Ph.D., Professor of History
Data: A Quantitative History
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-30 Nov 2018)
Ph.D., Professor, École normale supérieure de Paris
Editing Le mecaniche and reevaluating the practical knowledge of Renaissance engineers
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)
The Particle Physics Tradition in the Final Theory Program
Visiting Scholar (14 Apr-31 Dez 2018)
Dr., Professor, University of Vienna
Track I oder Track II Diplomatie? Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und ihre internationalen wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen individuellem Engagement und administrativer Professionalität
Visiting Scholar (10 Sep 2018-6 Jan 2019)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanitites and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform era China
Director (Since Apr 2013)
Dr., Professor, TU Berlin, FU Berlin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Histories of Planning
Research Scholar, Group Leader (Since Jul 2003)
Dr.
Long-term Development of Spatial Cognition; History of Early Modern Mechanics; History of Modern Physics and Astronomy; History of Chinese Science
Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-15 Sep 2018)
Dr. med., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports Im Rahmen der Working Group The Body of Animals
Research Program Coordinator, Senior Research Scholar (1 Jul 2015-31 Mai 2019)
Dr.
History of the Max Planck Society
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2016-31 Okt 2018)
The Ain Juj Water Conduit – Hydraulics and Isotope Chemistry of Sinter Accumulation
Visiting Scholar (14 Mar 2016-31 Dez 2022)
Dipl. Soz.
Bibliometrics in the History of Science
Visiting Scholar (15 Jan 2018-31 Mar 2019)
Prof. Dr.
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (8 Mai 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Theater Exhibitions, Exhibition Media, and the Humanities around 1900
Visiting Scholar (28 Jun-27 Sep 2018)
Dr. rer.nat, Dr. phil.
Transcendent Experiences - Phenomena, Ideas, and Judgements
Research Scholar (9 Nov 2015-30 Sep 2019)
PhD
Convivencia Project; Reformist Objects
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Okt 2018)
MD, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
Stigma and Cure: challenge of proof in HIV cure research
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Public Health, Modern Agriculture, and Wars Against Insect Enemies: Pest Control and the Making of Applied Entomology in Modern China, 1915-1960
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University
Curarized Animals and the Detached Body
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-15 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., University of Leuven
Mineral Building Materials in China. Rediscovering the built environments in the large datasets of Difangzhi, 10-20th centuries
Visiting Scholar (1 Mai 2016-30 Apr 2019)
Lehre und Forschung des Göttinger Physikers Robert Wichard Pohl (1884-1976)
Rathenau Senior Fellow (Since Apr 2007)
PhD
History of Science after 1800: Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Philosophy; History of Technology: Electric Power, Energy and Power, Technological Systems, Technology in Museums; History of Biotechnology: Databases, Civil Liberties, Stock Market, Bioethics
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2019)
Dr., Full Professor, University of Calgary
Über den Wiederanschluss der neurowissenschaftlichen Forschung in der MPG an die Weltspitze
Research Scholar (1 Aug 2014-31 Mai 2022)
Dr.
How the Max Planck Society Generated New Knowledge in the Field of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (27 Aug 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Dr. phil.
Fossile Moderne - Technische Materialitäten und Zeitregimes im Anthropozän
Editorial Assistant (1 Aug 2016-29 Feb 2020)
Editionsassistenz
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2018-31 Mar 2019)
PhD candidate, Dept. for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sidney
Usurping the Demon: Jan Baptista van Helmont and Magical Authority in Early Modern Medicine
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-28 Feb 2019)
Ph.D., Professor, Zhejiang University, Department of History
Local Identity and State along the Grand Canal: Transforming Agrarian Societies in the Northern Grand Canal Region, 1289-1855
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-15 Mar 2020)
PhD
Different Culture, Different Climate? Seeking cultural differences in the climate knowledge and ideas
Research Group Leader (1 Mar 2015-28 Feb 2020)
Dr., Professor for the History of Knowledge, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Making of Acoustics in Sixteenth to Nineteenth-Century Europe
Research Scholar (1 Mar 2017-28 Feb 2019)
Dr. phil.
History of the Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience and the Cognitive Sciences (BNC) in the Max Planck Society
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-4 Okt 2017)
PhD
La Falsa Alchimia de la Quale Tanta Stima già ne Feci: Lomazzo’s Thought on Alchemy
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Jan 2018-14 Jan 2019)
PhD
The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition
Research Group Leader (Since Okt 1998)
Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor by Special Appointment at the Tel Aviv University
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (24 Jul 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mar 2018)
Research Professor, Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies
Personhood and the Locked-in Syndrome
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2018)
Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Society in the Soviet Union
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dez 2024)
Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2014-31 Mai 2022)
PD Dr.
The History of the Life Sciences in the Max Planck Society: Forms of Knowledge Production and Regulation in a Changing World
Visiting Scholar (26 Okt 2016-25 Okt 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Concessions of Interest and Struggles for Rights versus Technology Dependence: A Case Study of Jinpu Railway 1908-1937
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Nov 2018)
PhD
Transmission of Medical Knowledge Embedded in Islamic Texts to China, 17th–19th Centuries
Research Scholar (2 Okt 2017-31 Jan 2020)
Dr.
Coal: A Global Object of Knowledge; Métissage: A Problem of European History
Research Scholar (Since Jan 2000)
Dipl. Phys.
Research IT
Visiting Scholar (4-18 Sep 2018)
PhD, Research Group Leader, Research Institute for History and Technology, Deutsches Museum München, Germany
Music of Metallurgy: Bell-Founding Metal for Musical Instruments
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2018-14 Jan 2019)
Geological Knowledge and the Making of Modern East Asia: A Transnational History of Petroleum Explorations in Manchuria
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Okt 2018)
Ph.D., Department of History, Zhejiang University, China
Chinese Maps Collected by the MPIWG
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)
PhD
Economics as a Coordination Tool. Investment Planning in Électricité de France, from the Nationalisation (1946) to the 1970s
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Jun 2019)
Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside
The Art of Judgement: Logistical Modernity — Flows, Forms, and Spaces
Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since Jan 2008)
Dr.
Translating Everyday Experience into Social Knowledge: Central European Feuilleton Culture around 1900