Prof. Dr. Christoph Hoffmann | Studied German Literature and History in Frankfurt/Main and Freiburg im Breisgau. Ph.D. in German Literature in 1995 at the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg i. Br. (»Der Dichter am Apparat. Medientechnik, Experimentalpsychologie und Texte Robert Musils 1899–1942«). Habilitation in 2004 at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder (»Unter Beobachtung. Naturforschung in der Zeit der Sinnesapparate«). 1996–1998 postdoctoral fellow at the graduate school »Repräsentation – Rhetorik – Wissen«, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. 1998–2001 Karl Schädler postdoctoral research fellow at the MPI for the History of Science. 2001 Research fellow at the Center for Research on Literature, Berlin. 2002–2004 Research grant from the German Research Foundation. 2004–2010 research scholar at the MPI for the History of Science. Since March 2010 Professor of Science Studies at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Further information
Dr. des. Karin Krauthausen | Studied Comparative Literature, Art History and Italian Philology in Munich, Florence and Berlin. 2000–2003 predoctoral fellowship at the graduate school »Bild – Körper – Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive« at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. 2003–2005 coordination of cultural projects and editorial work. 2005–2006 research fellow in the research group »Das Leben schreiben. Medientechnologie und die Wissenschaften vom Leben (1800–1900)« at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. January to February 2007 visiting fellow at the graduate school »Codification of Violence in Medial Transformation« at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Ph.D. in 2008 on Paul Valéry's drawing theory and pratice at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. April 2007–March 2008 postdoctoral research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max Planck Institute). April 2008–January 2011 postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Since 2010 member of the DFG network »Improvisation und Invention: Findkünste, Einfallstechniken, Ideenmaschinen.« In 2011, she is a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach. Since May 2011 she is coordinator of the bi-national PhD-Net »Das Wissen der Literatur« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Further information
Dr. Omar W. Nasim | Studied Philosophy and Physics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. 1997–1999 teaching and research assistant at the University of Manitoba. 2005–2006 research scholarship at the University of Konstanz funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2006 at the University of Toronto (»Constructing the World: Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers«). April 2007–March 2008 postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. April 2008–december 2009 postdoctoral research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max Planck Institute). Since winter 2009/2010 he is working as a senior research fellow at the chair for Science Studies (ETH Zürich) and a member of the National Centre of Competence »Iconic Criticism – Bildkritik (eikones)« (Universität Basel). Further information
Dr. Jutta Voorhoeve | Studied Art History, German Literature and Philosophy in Bonn. Predoctoral research fellow at the graduate school »Repräsentation – Rhetorik – Wissen«, Europa–Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. Ph.D. in Art History in 2005 on Ludwig Tieck’s »Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen« and Romantic Art History at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. Press, public relations and project coordination for various galleries. March 2007–July 2010 research scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max Planck Institute). Since summer 2010 research scholar at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Further information
Prof. Dr. Barbara Wittmann | Studied Art History in Vienna and Berlin. 1994 research assistant at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts. Ph.D. in 1999 at the Freie Universität Berlin (»Gesichter geben. Édouard Manet und die Poetik des Portraits«). 1999–2003 research scholar at the University of Trier. March–April 2003 visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Istanbul (ITÜ). November 2003–October 2005 visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the IFK Cultural Studies Center, Vienna). Winter 2005–summer 2006 postdoctoral research fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max Planck Institute). September 2006–June 2010 research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Since June 2010 assistant professor at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University Weimar and junior director at the IKKM. She directs a Research Fellow Program on »Tools of Drafting«. Further information
PD Dr. Stephan Kammer | Studied German Literature, History and Sociology in Basel. 1997–2000 predoctoral fellowship at the graduate school »Textkritik als Grundlage und Verfahren historischer Wissenschaften,« LMU Munich. Ph.D. in German Literature in 2000 at the University of Basel (»Figurationen und Gesten des Schreibens. Zur Poetik der Produktion in Robert Walsers Prosa der Berner Zeit«). 2001–2007 research and teaching scholar at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Since January 2008 research grant from the German Research Foundation. 2008/09 visiting professor at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Since March 2008 visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Further information
Dr. Christof Windgätter | Studied German Literature, Philosophy and Cultural Studies in Munich, Los Angeles and Berlin. Ph.D. in Cultural Studies on a media theory of scripture in Friedrich Nietzsche (»Medienwechsel. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Sprache für die Schrift«). Since 2003 associate lecturer at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. April 2007–April 2009 postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. May–August 2009 research fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Since fall 2009 research fellow of the Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien.
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger | Studied Philosophy and Biology in Tübingen and Berlin. Ph.D. in Biology in 1982 at the Freie Universität Berlin. 1982–1990 research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Habilitation in Molecular Biology in 1987 at the Freie Universität Berlin. 1987–1992 visiting professor at the Universities of Innsbruck and Salzburg. 1989/90 sabbatical at Stanford University (»Program in the History of Science«). 1990–1994 lecturer for History of Science at the Medical University Lübeck. 1993–1994 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies). 1994–1996 professor for Molecular Biology and History of Science at the Institute for Genetics and General Biology at the University of Salzburg. Since 1997 director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Since 1998 honorary professor for History of Science at the Technical University Berlin. Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf | Studied Art History, Philosophy and Archeology in Heidelberg. Ph.D. in Art History in 1989. Postdoctoral research fellow of the German Research Foundation and the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. Habilitation in Art History in 1995 at the Freie Universität Berlin. 1994–1997 visiting professor at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Vienna. 1997 »Directeur d'études invité« at the ÉHÉSS in Paris. 1997–2003 professor for Art History at the University of Trier. 2001–2002 Richard Krautheimer professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome. Visiting professor at the universities of Basel (2000/01), Buenos Aires (2002), and Mexico City (2003). Since summer 2003 director at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max Planck Institute).
Mareike Schildmann | Studies German Literature and Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and at the MGU Moscow. 2006–2008 research assistant at the Institute for German Literature at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. March 2008–Sepember 2009 she worked at the Heiner-Müller-Archive, assisting to the edition of Heiner Müller’s works. Since December 2009 research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Alrun Schmidtke | Completing a M.A. in History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, majoring in the history of science. Awardee of the »Bundeswettbewerb Fremdsprachen,« and scholarship student of the »Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.« She participated in interdisciplinary summer schools at the University of Bedfordshire (2005), at the University of Heidelberg (2009) and at eikones, Basel (2010). Since July 2009 research assistant at the MPI for the History of Science.
Angela Bösl | Studied History of Art and Medieval and Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the Université de Paris Sorbonne IV. Since April 2008 enrolled at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 573 »Pluralization and Authority in the Early Modern Period, 15th-17th Centuries« (LMU Munich) and at the German Forum for Art History in Paris. October 2008–June 2009 research assistant at the MPI for the History of Science.
Anna Eggers | Studies Gender Studies and Mathematics at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. November 2007–January 2008 teaching assistant at the Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin. February–August 2008 research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Antonia von Schöning | Studied European Media Culture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and at the Université Lyon II. 2006-2007 undergraduate research studentship at the graduate school »Media of History - History of Media«, Bauhaus University, Weimar (funded by the German Research Foundation). Finished her M.A. thesis on the history of cartographic representation in 19th-century Paris in fall 2007. January–December 2007 research assistant at the MPI for the History of Science in Berlin.
Uta Schürmann | Studied German Philology, Comparative Literature and History of Art at the Technical University Berlin. Since February 2006 teaching assistant at the Institute for Literature, TU Berlin. Since 2001 freelance scriptwriter. Currently working on her M.A. thesis on the interior descriptions in Theodor Fontane's novels. July 2007–September 2008 research assistant at the MPI for the History of Science in Berlin.
Lidia Westermann | Studied Comparative Literature, Physics and History of the Book in Mainz and since 2006 Comparative Literature and History of Science and Technology in Berlin. 2004–2005 teaching assistant at the Institute of Comparative Literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2006–2008 teaching assistant at the Institute of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin. October 2008–September 2009 research assistant at the MPI for the History of Science.
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Barbara Dietl, Alrun Schmidtke, Antonia von Schöning, Skuli Sigurdsson, Barbara Wittmann
