Stephanie Hood

Stephanie is Press & Communications Manager and Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). She is responsible for the Institute's press and communications, including writing, editing, and translation for the website and social media, and print communications. Stephanie also curates, edits, and supports communication for the Sphaera and Reading Early English Medicine projects, and is responsible for coordinating public outreach events and exhibitions such as the Max-Planck-Tag and Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften in Berlin.

Stephanie has a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of York, UK (2009), and an MSc (with Distinction) in History of Science awarded by the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London (UCL) jointly with Imperial College London (2013). Her thesis used the Challenger expedition (1872–76) as a case study of visual culture in nineteenth-century scientific exploration, considering how Daston and Galison's concept of photography and "Objectivity" could be applied to its visual strategies for scientific knowledge production and broader scientific and social contexts (e.g., economy, education). 

Before joining the MPIWG, Stephanie was an Editor at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. She has also worked as an English-language editor of tourist information at UNESCO heritage sites in China, supported and evaluated environmental and cultural heritage education projects for the Chinese Society for Education (CSE), and worked in administrative roles for the UK's National Health Service.