Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (2 Jan 2017-31 Dec 2023)
PhD
Making Euclid Practical: The Impact of Practical Geometry on the Euclidean Tradition in the Sixteenth Century
aaxworthy@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-31 Dec 2024)
The Codex Ashb. 361 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy) and the manuscript O (Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia, Italy): From Leonardo da Vinci’s Codices to Giovanni Battista Venturi’s studies
becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2019-31 Dec 2025)
Dr.
Astro-particle Physics 1970s — Early 1980s: Investigating the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process
Visiting Student (15 Oct 2023-31 Jan 2026)
Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2019-31 Dec 2023)
PhD, Associate Professor, Fine Arts Faculty in Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Projekte: 1) Camera obscura interactive database and timeline 2) “In-Camera-Out”, Moving Portraits
mpablo@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2023)
PD Dr.
Geld – Macht – Wissenschaft. Eine Strukturgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
jbalcar@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Technology Officer (1 Jan 2023-28 Feb 2028)
Sphaera Project
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2022-31 Jan 2026)
PhD, Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London
The Survival of Cuneiform Writing and Knowledge of Akkadian (Babylonian)
mgeller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Jan 2026)
PhD, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic
fbgeller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 May 2023-31 Oct 2023)
Scientific Controversies as a Window to Modeling Processes in the Life
Emeritus Scholar (16 Jan 2023-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr. emeritus
Geschichte der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt
dh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Dec 2016-31 Dec 2023)
Prof. Dr. emeritus
The Italian Abbacus School: Its Background and Its Influence
jhoyrup@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (15 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2024)
Affiliated Scholar (1 Feb 2020-31 Dec 2025)
Prof. Dr.
The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
klein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (18 Aug 2014-31 Dec 2025)
Dr.
Apokalypse Frau? Feminismus, Föten und "Fake News"
Research Scholar (1 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
The Max Planck Society and the Internationalization of Life Science Research, During the Cold War and Beyond
akraft@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr.
Alfonsine Astronomers at Work: Computing Daily Planetary Positions, 1330 - 1560
rkremer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2022-31 Jan 2026)
Dr.
Applying the socio-epistemic network methodology to the history of recent physical sciences
rlalli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Emeritus Scholar (1 Mar 2006-31 Dec 2024)
Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin
Machine Drawings
wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2024)
PhD, Dept. of History University College London
Technologies of Health c. 1450-1750
eleong@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (27 Jan 2023-29 Feb 2024)
CorDeep and the Sacrobosco Dataset: Detection of Visual Elements in Historical Documents
Research Software Developer (1 Apr 2024-31 Dec 2025)
Visiting Scholar (1 Mar 2018-31 Jan 2026)
Prof. Dr.
The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Visiting Scholar (6 Apr 2020-30 Apr 2024)
Dr.
The dissemination of Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera
Visiting Scholar (16 Sep 2019-15 Mar 2025)
Professor, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA
mrentetzi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (16 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2024)
Prof. Dr.
Sylter Austern. Eine tausendjährige multiperspektivische Beziehungsgeschichte von ostrea und homo sapiens
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Dec 2023)
Die Erwirtschaftung des Anthropozäns? Die Rolle des modernen Wirtschaftens in den Entwicklungsdynamiken zur Entstehung des Anthropozäns: Ursprünge und neue Wege
gschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2022-31 Jan 2026)
Dr., Professor, Universität Hamburg
1. The Encounter of Two Systems of Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China, 2. Crisis of Humankind and Scientific Truth: Reflection on Science at the Starnberg Max Planck Institute (1970–1980)
schemmel@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (1 Apr 2023-31 Mar 2024)
Dr. phil.
Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2015-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
– Luftfahrtforschung und Okkupationspolitik: Die „Außenstellen“ der Aerodynamischen Versuchsanstalt im europäischen Herrschaftsbereich des NS-Regimes während des Zweiten Weltkriegs – Vergangenheitspolitik der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft –Dual Use-Problematik und militärische Forschung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
schmaltz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (17 Oct 2022-31 Oct 2023)
NFDI4Objects: Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History
Research Scholar (1 Feb 2018-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
Wissensproduktion in der Grundlagenforschung: Eine Sozialgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (1948-2005)
jscholz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2021-31 Jul 2025)
The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Oct 2023-31 Dec 2024)
The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms
asiebold@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2019-30 Apr 2024)
Erschließung und Aufbereitung von Dokumenten zur Lehre und Forschung des Göttinger Physikers Robert Wichard Pohl (1884 – 1976)
sieker@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2021-31 Dec 2023)
A “Fair Trade” of Knowledge? Ipecacuanha as an Example of Practices of Knowledge Exchange Between South America and Europe, 16th-19th Centuries
sspielmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (1 Aug 2014-31 Dec 2023)
Dr.
How the Max Planck Society Generated New Knowledge in the Field of Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science
tsteinhauser@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (1 Sep 2020-31 Mar 2024)
Dr.
Industrial Catalysis and its Impact on the Human-Earth-System in the Anthropocene
bsteininger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (1 Mar 2017-31 Dec 2023)
Dr. phil.
History of the Behavioral Sciences, Neuroscience and the Cognitive Sciences (BNC) in the Max Planck Society
stopp@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Group Leader (Since Oct 1998)
Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor for Special Appointment, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Emeritus Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2024)
Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (1 Jan 2023-30 Nov 2023)
PD Dr.
Moving Back into Laboratory: Responsibility and Economisation of the Life Sciences in the MPG (1948-2000)
schwerin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Scholar (2 Oct 2017-30 Jun 2024)
Dr.
Coal: A Global Object of Knowledge; Métissage: A Problem of European History
hwendt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2023)
The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity in Europe
mzamani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de