About the Panelists

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  Anna L. Ahlers

  Anna L. Ahlers is currently assembling a Lise Meitner Research Group at the MPIWG, "China in the Global System of Science," which will explore the many facets of China’s stunning ascent in the global system of science in recent decades qualitatively and quantitatively. Her own current research projects focus on the political regime as an environmental factor for science, and the intersections and interactions of scientists/scholars with the government in local policy-making in the PR China.

  Anna Ahlers studied sinology and political science at the University of Tübingen, Peking University, and Renmin University (PR China), and holds a PhD in China Studies from the University of Tübingen. Before joining the MPIWG in January 2020, she was a tenured Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Society and Politics at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has also worked at the University of Bonn (FIW), Zhejiang University (PR China), the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Academia Sinica (RoChina), and the University of Chicago where she was a Wigeland Visiting Professor in the academic year 2018/19. She is a board member of the Junge Akademie (BBAW und Leopoldina) and a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2020/21.

  Photo: David Ausserhofer, 2020.

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  Lino Camprubí

  Lino Camprubí is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad de Sevilla. After graduate studies in Cornell, he obtained his PhD in UCLA in 2011. He has worked as a researcher at the UABarcelona and the MPIWG in Berlin, and as a visiting lecturer at UChicago. He is co-PI of the research project IBEROT@C and PI of the ERC-CoG DEEPMED. He has wide interests concerning history and philosophy of science, from engineering and politics to oceanography and warfare.

  Camprubí is the author of Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime (MIT Press, 2014) and Los ingenieros de Franco (Crítica, 2017), recipient of the ICOHTEC 2018 Book Prize. He has also co-edited Technology and Globalization (Palgrave Economic History Series, 2018), De la Guerra Fría al calentamiento global (Catarata, 2018) and the special issue “Experiencing the Global Environment” (SHPS, 2018). He has published in HSNS, Technology and Culture, Energy Policy and SHPS. More recently, he has co-edited an interdisciplinary book on the corona crisis (Sociedad entre pandemias, 2021).