Daniela Trinks

Daniela Trinks works in East Asian studies, with particular attention to the cultural history of knowledge transmission across regions and traditions. She completed her PhD at Myongji University in South Korea in 2014. From 2015 to 2024, she served as Professor in the Department of Go Studies at Myongji University, where she taught Go culture, education, and English, supervised international students, and co-organized academic conferences and public outreach events.

Her research addresses the history of science, cultural exchange, and the educational, cognitive, and social dimensions of East Asian traditions. Daniela has presented at numerous international workshops and conferences, published in the Journal of Go Studies, European Go Journal, and Deutsche Go Zeitung, and contributes to the international game studies community as Vice-President of the International Society of Go Studies. She has also served as a peer reviewer of academic articles, on editorial teams for journals and textbooks, and co-organized major conferences in this field.

From September 2025 to May 2026, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, affiliated with the Max Planck Research Group “Astral Sciences in Trans-Regional Asia” (ASTRA), where she conducted research on East Asian knowledge traditions, presented her work internationally, and advanced the translation and annotation of The History of Go by Chihyung Nam for a wider scholarly audience.