Alina Enzensberger is on parental leave February 2025–January 2026. During this time the role of Research Coordinator is being covered by Laura Keck.
Alina Enzensberger is the Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is responsible for supporting the development of the Institute's research events program with the aim of facilitating scholarly dialogue, designing and implementing career support for junior scholars in various formats as well as advancing the Institute-wide international guest program in liaison with all units of the MPIWG.
She studied History and Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin and University College London (UCL) and holds a PhD in Modern History from Humboldt University. In her PhD thesis titled Übergangsräume: Deutsche Lazarette im Ersten Weltkrieg (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Göttingen, 2021) she dealt with German military hospitals during the First World War as liminal spaces and multi-faceted contact zones between the military and civil sphere.
Before joining the MPIWG, Alina held positions as coordinator of the Research School within the Collaborative Research Center "Cultures of Vigilance" (SFB 1369 "Vigilanzkulturen") at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) and as coordinator of the Franco-German Research School "Unterschiede denken II/Construire les différences II" between Humboldt University Berlin, Free University Berlin, Technical University Berlin, and EHESS Paris.