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 (1 Feb 2016-28 Feb 2018)
Dr.
Music, Mathematics, and Experimental Science
Visiting Scholar (1-28 Feb 2018)
Professor of History, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Exemplum and Wundertier—Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona
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
Research Scholar (1 Okt 2014-31 Mai 2022)
PD Dr.
History of the Max Planck Society
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Dez 2018)
PhD
Architects and Engineers between Analytical Mechanics and Graphical Thinking
Research Scholar, IT Architect (15 Mai 2017-14 Mai 2019)
MRes, MSc, MA, BSc
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
History of Medicine and Science in China, 1500-1800; Materiality of Knowledge as Presented in Ming-Qing Local Gazetteers. A Social History of Medical Recipes in Early Modern China
Visiting Scholar (4-19 Feb 2018)
PhD, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Researching Radio: Sound Archives and Discipline Formation, 1930-1945
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2015-31 Mai 2018)
PhD
Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and Technoscience in Canada
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
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2016-31 Mai 2018)
PhD, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Branching as a Strategy for Scientific Research and Innovation: the Transformation and Evolution from 1947 to 2002 of the Max Planck Institute for Physics into the Present Cluster of Institutes for Physics, Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Physics, and Gravitational Physics
Research Scholar (Since Apr 2012)
Dr.
Transformations of Verbal, Visual, and Manual Knowledge in Islamicate Societies and the Mediterranean World. The Objects I Study are Arabic and Persian Texts on the Steelyard, Arabic Translations of Euclid's Elements, Verbal and Visual Narratives, and Institutions
Research Scholar (1 Jun 2015-31 Mai 2018)
PhD
Sound Science: Recording and Listening in the Biology of Bird Song, Listening and The Shaping of Work Performance in the Twentieth Century
Postdoctoral Fellow (14 Aug-31 Okt 2017)
PhD
Privileged Knowledge. The Politics of Print in the Early Dutch Republic
TOPOI Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2012-31 Dez 2018)
Dipl. Phys.
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)
Professor for the History of Science
Rewriting Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medical Epistemology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
The Strait in the Cold War. Deep Science and Global Geopoliticsin the Mediterranean
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Mai 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Between Law and Science: Unsoundness of Mind in Anglo-American Medical Jurisprudence
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)
Professor of Early Modern History, History Department, Royal Holloway
Early Vernacular Medical Books, Users and Uses, Impact
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)
Doctoral Student, University of Wisconsin–Madison
"The Science of Prophecy?" The Role of Paleo-Disciplines in the Face of Anthropogenic Change, 1916-2015
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Aug 2018)
PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
In Search of Unknown Craftsmen: Trade, Tribute, and the Invention of Bingata
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg
Nutritional Filth: Agricultural Uses of Animal Waste in Late Imperial China
Visiting Scholar (16 Apr-11 Mai 2018)
PhD
Open Office Design and the Acoustics of the Knowledge Economy
Visiting Scholar (11 Jul-30 Sep 2017)
PhD
Sonic Intermedia of Cold War Experimentalism
Research Scholar (1 Mai 2016-30 Sep 2019)
MA, Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam
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'
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 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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Apr 2018)
Between Marvel and Machine. From the "image de nigromance" to the Mechanised "Engin": The Automation in the Middle Ages
Visiting Scholar (19 Feb-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
School Library Book Collections in Ming, Qing, and Republican China
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2017)
PhD, Independent Scholar
Demographic Regimes
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-31 Dez 2017)
PhD, Charché de Recherche (1e cl.)
Chinese Maps
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-1 Dez 2017)
PhD, Research Professor
Jean Senebier (1742-1809) and the Eighteenth-century ars observandi
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-15 Aug 2018)
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Capturing Knowledge—Captivity, Trafficking, and Knowledge Acquistion in Early Modern China
Visiting Scholar (12 Jul-18 Sep 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Baroque Ghosts: Jesuits between Old and New Science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Princeton University
Writing the "Thesaurus" of Latinity: A Study in the History of Philological Practice
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 (15 Jul-23 Dez 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Biodiversity Preservation in International Agricultural Research
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (5 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2019)
PhD
The Introduction of Emergentist Concepts into the Final Theory Program
Research Scholar (Since Sep 2012)
Dr.
Science and Technology in Italian Postwar Cultural Journals
Visiting Scholar (6 Aug-20 Sep 2017)
PhD, Tel Aviv University
The Practice and Language of Science and Politics: Power and Knowledge Formation in Asian History (10th to 18th century)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-30 Apr 2018)
PhD
A Million Horses: The Geography and Economy of Frontier Horse Ranches in Early Ming China
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 Scholar (1 Aug 2016-31 Jul 2018)
The Evolution of the MPG’s Relation with Israeli Scientific Institutions in Comparison with the Development of MPG’s International Relations
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
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
The “Smartness” Mandate: A Genealogy of Automated Ecologies
Artist in Residence (1-30 Apr 2018)
"Can machines think? - History of the Human, Computational, and Behavioral Sciences in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2018)
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 (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
Visiting Scholar (1 Mai-30 Sep 2017)
PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
Research Scholar, Communications Editor (1 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2019)
MSc
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2017-15 Feb 2018)
PhD
Cartography in Sacroboscoʼs Tract “The Sphere”
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2017-28 Feb 2018)
PhD
Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2016-30 Jun 2019)
PhD
From Electrotype to the Electric Image: Global Vision, c. 1830–1920
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 (20 Mai-31 Jul 2017)
Professor, Program in History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
How Einstein found his Field Equations
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 Mar 2017)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Cometary Pamphlets and the Way they Present, Create, and Diffuse Natural Philosophic Knowledge
Visiting Scholar (8 Mai 2017-30 Jun 2018)
Dr. phys.
Fritz Haber und die Ammoniak Synthese
Visiting Scholar (26 Mar-11 Aug 2018)
Professor of History Emeritus, Villanova University
Biochemistry in the Max Planck Society during the Postwar Era
Journalist in Residence (22 Jan-18 Mar 2018)
PhD
A History of Life and Earth
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2011-31 Dez 2017)
Dr.
History of Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (esp. Atomic Physics and Institutional and Social Aspects)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Columbia University
"The Myth of Greek Algebra": Philology and the Discovery of Calculus, 1580–1710
Visiting Scholar (11 Sep-15 Okt 2017)
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
From Sonar to Quartz Clock: Technology and Physics in War, Academy, and Industry
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-15 Jul 2017)
Dr., Prof. em., Universität Bremen
Konrad Lorenz: „KL als scientific persona, „Harnack-Pläncker“ und öffentlicher Wissenschaftsstar in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges bis in die 1970er Jahre“
IT Researcher
MA
Event Recording, Reference Management, Media Library
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 Mai 2019)
Gender Issues in the Hierarchy of the Max Planck Society, 1948–1998
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2017-31 Mar 2018)
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 Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2017-31 Mar 2018)
MA, MPI for European Legal History (Frankfurt/ Main)
Legal History in the MPG (Jurisprudence)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2017)
MA, Doctoral Student, Freie Universität Berlin
Listening Techniques in Post-Reformation Geneva: Evidence from the Registers of the Consistory (1542–1555)
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Apr 2018)
PhD
Good Science. Epistemic values and Scholarly Reputations. Europe, 1770-1830
Research Scholar (1 Jun 2015-31 Dez 2022)
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 (15 Mar 2013-15 Mai 2018)
PhD, President's Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology, Arizona State University
History of Biology, Computational History of Science, Evolutionary Models of the Dynamics of Knowledge, Complexity Theory
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-30 Jun 2018)
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Computerizing Diagnosis: Minds, Medicine, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Aug 2017)
PhD
Practicalities in “Practical Studies” in Nineteenth-Century Korea Thinking Social and Technological Innovation through Papermaking
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 Scholar (1 Feb 2017-31 Mai 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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2019)
Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model: Acoustic Processing and Computational Knowledge
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
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 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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2017-15 Aug 2018)
Astrology and Astronomy in Liao-Yuan China and Inner Asia
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Apr 2018)
Doctoral Student, Princeton University
The Systematization of Values in German Design 192x-195x
Visiting Scholar (1 Okt 2017-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Reader in History of Science and Medicine, Queen Mary University of London
Good Doctors: A Story of Governing and Knowing from Medieval to Modern Europe
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD
Hortus Oceanus Indicus: The Calcutta Botanic Garden and the Making of the Indian Ocean Environment, 1786-184
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2017-10 Apr 2018)
PhD
Transregional Artistic Knowledge in Renaissance Siena
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 (24 Jul 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-30 Jun 2018)
Charting the Weather: a History of Graphical Representations in late 18th-century Meteorology
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug-31 Dez 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor, NYU Steinhardt
The Speed of Sound: Stretching Time, Shifting Pitch
(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 Jan-31 Mar 2018)
Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council
A Global History of Human Teeth
External Scientific Member (Since Nov 2010)
Professor
Etymology and Allegoresis in the Ancient Greek Scholarly Traditions
Visiting Scholar (1 Apr 2017-31 Mar 2018)
PhD, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University
Secularization and Scientific Development: Cause or Effect?
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Jun 2020)
Transmission of Islamic Astronomy to Europe: Influence or Similarity of Structures?
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-30 Apr 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor
Souls, Science & Socialism. Parapsychology in India and South Africa, 1950-80
Predoctoral Research Fellow (1 Mar 2018-28 Feb 2021)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (20 Jun-15 Jul 2018)
PhD
Famine, Science and the Aesthetics of Planning in Modern India
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2017-31 Jan 2018)
PhD, Visiting Faculty, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)
The Steady-State of Cultures. Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and American Anthropology 1930–1950
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-31 Aug 2019)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-14 Mar 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2018)
Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Biological Individual in the Nineteenth Century
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
Research Scholar (1 Nov 2010-30 Jun 2020)
PhD
History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science with a Special Focus on Epistemology, Cosmology, and Philosophy
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-31 Mai 2018)
Children of Science: Development, Psychology, and Visual Media Technology in Arnold Gesell's Developmental Psychology (1911-1953)
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 Okt-31 Dez 2017)
PD Dr. phil., Research Associate and Lecturer, Musicology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Volume and Vibration. A Media and Knowledge History of Public Address Systems between Electroacoustics, Politics and Music, Germany circa 1930
Research Coordinator, Senior Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)
PhD, Honorary Associate Professor
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 (30 Nov-12 Dez 2017)
PhD, Research Associate
Andean and Mesoamerican Cartography. Epistemology and Innovation; Innovative Moral Business and Finance of Capitalism
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2016-30 Sep 2017)
PhD
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 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2018)
PhD, Professor of Global History and Culture, University of Warwick
Cultures of Innovation in Global History
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2016-30 Sep 2018)
Dr. phil.
The Anthropocene on Backstage: Tracing the Earth System before Earth System Science
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb-14 Apr 2018)
PhD, Professor of Long Term Development of Science and Technology, University of Twente
Technologies in Use, 1760-1840: Toward a Historical and Historiographical Frame
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"
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2020)
The Particle Physics Tradition in the Final Theory Program
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)
Full Professor
Global Networks and Local Institutions. The Dynamics of the Globalization of Knowledge at Play in the Mobility of Natural Objects and Astronomical Research in Nineteenth-century Chile
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 (3 Apr-31 Mai 2018)
PhD, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2016-31 Mai 2018)
Dr. med., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto
Historicizing the Technoscientific Turn of Reproduction in the Twentieth Century
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-31 Dez 2017)
Publishing Policy and Decision-making Powers: Paul Rosbaud and the Role of Consultants in the Scientific Book Trade, c. 1925–1965
Visiting Scholar (14 Mar 2016-31 Dez 2017)
Dipl. Soz.
Bibliometrics in the History of Science
Visiting Scholar (15 Jan-15 Jul 2018)
Prof. Dr.
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (8 Mai 2017-28 Feb 2020)
Theater Exhibitions, Exhibition Media, and the Humanities around 1900
Visiting Scholar (15 Feb-15 Apr 2018)
Prof. Dr., Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal
Music in Therapy. Narratives of Musical Practices in Medical Context in the 19th and 20th Century
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov-20 Dez 2017)
Dr. rer.nat, Dr. phil.
Transcendent Experiences - Phenomena, Ideas, and Judgements
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun-31 Jul 2018)
PhD, Research Associate and Editor, Darwin Correspondence Project
Artisan Naturalists
Senior Research Scholar, Group Leader (1 Sep 2012-31 Dez 2018)
PhD
A Natural History of Data; Extinction and the Value of Diversity
Research Scholar (9 Nov 2015-30 Sep 2019)
PhD
Convivencia Project; Reformist Objects
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
Experts of Memory: Chanting as a Method and Verification of Learning in Tang Dynasty China
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 Scholar (1 Mai 2016-30 Apr 2018)
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-28 Feb 2018)
The Science of Learning, the Practice of Education: A History of 'Anschauungspädagogik', ca. 1806-1871
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan-31 Mar 2018)
PhD, Reader in Classical Art
Slight, Description and Knowledge in Imagines of the Elder Philostratus
Visiting Scholar (16 Jul 2017-15 Jul 2018)
Dr., Full Professor, University of Calgary
Über den Wiederanschluss der neurowissenschaftlichen Forschung in der MPG an die Weltspitze
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul-30 Sep 2017)
PhD, Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University
Music and the Limits of Psychology, 1910–1960
Research Scholar (1 Aug 2014-31 Mai 2019)
Dr.
How the Max Planck Society Generated New Knowledge in the Field of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science
Visiting Scholar (8 Mai 2017-31 Dez 2018)
Dr. phil.
Fossile Moderne - Technische Materialitäten und Zeitregimes im Anthropozän
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)
PhD, James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology, Department of Art History and Communication Studies
The Speed of Sound: A History of Time-Stretching and Pitch-Shifting
Staff (1 Aug 2016-29 Feb 2020)
Editionsassistenz
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1-30 Nov 2017)
Radio-Activities: The Architecture of Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
Visiting Scholar (26 Nov-7 Dez 2017)
PhD, Professor
Cross-cultural Transmission and Reconstruction of Mechanics since the 17th Century
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
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Visiting Scholar (15 Jan-30 Jun 2018)
PhD, Advanced Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago
Guildhalls as Hybrid Socio-religious Spaces and as Part of a Network of Religious Spaces
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (11 Nov-31 Dez 2017)
Chemical Desires (1850-1929): Making the Architectural Materials of Modernity
Visiting Scholar (1-31 Mar 2018)
Research Professor, Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies
Personhood and the Locked-in Syndrome
Senior Research Scholar (Since Sep 1994)
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
Journalist in Residence (1 Apr-31 Jul 2018)
Hilma af Klint and the Art of Scientific Illustration
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar-30 Jun 2018)
"Though their Causes be not yet discover'd": Occult Traditions in the Making of Newton's Natural Philosophy
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 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
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep-31 Dez 2017)
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
The Electric Modern: Modernity, Labor and the Visual Archive
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (18 Jul 2017-17 Jul 2018)
PhD
Narratives of Transformation: The Globalization of Indigenous Knowledge
Research Scholar (Since Jan 2000)
Dipl. Phys.
Research IT
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2017-30 Jun 2018)
MA, Doctoral Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Role of Astronomers and Physicians as Agents of Scientific and Medical Exchange in the Mongol Eurasia
Visiting Scholar (1-30 Nov 2017)
PhD, Professor at the Department of History, Research Institute for Pre-modern Chinese History, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
A Preliminary Investigation of the Old Chinese Maps Collected in Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science
Visiting Scholar (22 Jan-22 Feb 2018)
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
Theories, Models, and Phenomena: The Structure of Exact Natural Science in Greece, 400 BC–200 AD
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 Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-30 Apr 2018)
Doctoral Student, University of California, Berkeley
Ontogeny of the Will and the Sciences of Child Development in Germany, 1750–1870
Visiting Scholar (15 Aug-30 Sep 2017)
Prof. Dr. rer. oec. habil., Professor of the History of Technology, Technische Universität München (TUM)
Fighting Uncertainty and Promising Safety—Practices of Evidence for Technical Safety in Twentieth Century Engineering
Visiting Scholar (26 Nov-7 Dez 2017)
Prof. Dr.
Cross-cultural Transmission and Reconstruction of Mechanics since the 17th Century
Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since Jan 2008)
Dr.
Translating Everyday Experience into Social Knowledge: Central European Feuilleton Culture around 1900