Personen
Research Group Leader (Jan 2020–Sep 2025)
China in the Global System of Science
Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2022–Sep 2025)
Xi Jinping's Perspectives on Science and Technology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2019–Dez 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
Research Group Leader (Nov 2017–Jan 2025)
MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2019–Dez 2025)
Astro-particle Physics 1970s — Early 1980s: Investigating the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process
Media Officer
Multimedia Production, Video and Audio Communication
Predoctoral Scholar (Jun 2020–Mai 2025)
Europe’s Research Collaboration with China, 1993-2023: People, Practice and Policy
Predoctoral Scholar (Mai 2022–Apr 2025)
Assessing Certainty without Certainty: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Biomedical Research Data and its Role in the Emergence of Scientific Dissent
Predoctoral Scholar (Okt 2023–Mar 2027)
Women in British and American astronomical fieldwork in the nineteenth century
Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2023–Aug 2025)
The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
Research Scholar (Jul 2023–Feb 2026)
Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
Data Protection Coordinator (Since Jan 2024)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Nov–Dez 2024)
Science Films, their Festivals and Archives: the Strange Case of the International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film (1956-1975)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jun 2023–Sep 2025)
Overseas Development, Foreign Areas and Chinese "World-Writing
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2020–Sep 2025)
The Reforms of the National Science System of China—Global Models and National Interpretations
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Okt 2023–Jan 2026)
Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business
Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Jul 1995)
Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Aug 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III - working group "Proteins and Fibers": "Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber"
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2023–Jan 2025)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2023–Jun 2025)
Rhône Glacier: A Life in Glaciology
Predoctoral Scholar (Nov 2018–Dez 2025)
Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan–Dez 2024)
Field Allocation Maps in the Popular Ming Dynasty Encyclopedia and their Afterlife
Predoctoral Scholar (Nov 2020–Feb 2025)
An Interplay between Chinese Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine from the 18th to Early 20th Century
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
“Usual Suspects” in “Unusual Locations”: Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Expertise in the Late Ottoman Empire (1855–1922)
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2020–Sep 2025)
The Geopolitics of Chinese Arctic Research
Research Officer (Feb 2022–Dez 2027)
Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III
Research Scholar (Jul 2021–Jun 2026)
Scales of Validity
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2023–Dez 2024)
The Unity of Science in the Anthropocene
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jun 2023–Sep 2025)
Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2018–Jan 2026)
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Nov 2022–Jan 2026)
The Survival of Cuneiform Writing and Knowledge of Akkadian (Babylonian)
Research Scholar (Nov 2024–Okt 2027)
A Sense for Statistics in Modern India: Quantifying Communal Identities and Differences
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2023–Jan 2025)
Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jul 2020–Sep 2025)
Forging ahead under a Changing Sky: Meteorological Services and Crop Seed Breeding as Climate Change Adaptation in China
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
Cellulosenitrat: Eine Materialgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften, 1849–1951
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2020–Sep 2025)
Scientific Journals and the Transparency of Research: From 20th Century to Open Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mai 2024–Okt 2026)
Israel's AI's and Energy policies: Different Rationalities?
Postdoctoral Scholar (Aug 2024–Jul 2026)
Ogallala Inc.: Race, Work, and the Making of America’s Red Meat Capital
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
Ignorance in the Age of Text: “Ignorant” Readers and Their Reading in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mai 2024–Jan 2025)
S.N. Gupta and the quantization of Einstein’s gravity
Deputy Head of Communications
Research Communication; Science and Society; Public Outreach
Predoctoral Scholar (Mai 2021–Apr 2025)
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024–Aug 2026)
Archival Dispossessions: Archives, Empire, and the Epistemological Limits of the Nation-State
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024–Jan 2025)
The Coevolution (and eventual Separation) of Quantum Mechanics and QED 1925–1927
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
Beyond Leaves: Cultivating Knowledge in Books of Hours (1470–1520)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024–Aug 2025)
Charting the Shattered Sea: Maritime Conflicts and East Asian Oceanography in the Twentieth Century
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
The Politics of Music Capturing. Music Information Retrieval and Ethnomusicological Research, 1900–1970
Affiliated Scholar (Feb 2020–Dez 2025)
The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2023–Jun 2026)
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science
Research Group Leader (Nov 2018–Okt 2026)
Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2022–Jan 2026)
Alfonsine Astronomers at Work: Computing Daily Planetary Positions, 1330 - 1560
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2022–Jan 2026)
Applying the socio-epistemic network methodology to the history of recent physical sciences
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2022–Sep 2025)
Open Science in University-Industry Research Collaboration in the EU and China
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2017–Jan 2025)
Stephen Hawking's Attempts to Unify Physics (1970s-2010s): A Contribution Toward the Year of Quantum Science
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2022–Jan 2025)
Rethinking the role of unified field theory for physics
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2020–Feb 2026)
Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise
Predoctoral Scholar (Aug 2020–Aug 2025)
Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2024–Jan 2025)
Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity
Research Scholar (Sep 2022–Aug 2025)
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
External Scientific Member (Jun 2020–Mai 2027)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2019–Dez 2024)
Text and Context in Early Islamic Scholarship: A Ninth-Century Paraphrase of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy
Postdoctoral Scholar (Mai 2024–Jan 2025)
Philip Anderson Against the Big Machines: And How Emergence Made its Way into Physics
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024–Jan 2025)
Effective Field Theories and Relational Paradigms
Management Officer
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Okt 2022–Feb 2025)
A history of ‘Making Things’ in West Africa, 1920-1980: creating meaning making and experience
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2018–Jan 2026)
The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis
Postdoctoral Scholar (Mai 2023–Nov 2024)
From Recipients of Knowledge to Producers: Indigenous Peasants’ Knowledge and Sustainable Farming in Peru (1950-2010)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Apr 2024–Mar 2025)
The Photographic Dome of the Yale Clinic of Child Development
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1882–1952
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Feb 2026)
Science before Nature: An Epistemology of Perspectives in the Commentaries of Cuneiform Scholarly Traditions
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mai 2023–Jan 2025)
An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s
Predoctoral Scholar (Okt 2023–Mar 2027)
Tracing an Epistemic Genre: Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections as Resources of Knowledge
Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Apr 2022)
A Phenomenology of the Experiment
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Apr 2019–Dez 2024)
Symbiotic Worlding: Theories and Practices of Coexistence in Lynn Margulis and Donna Haraway
Postdoctoral Scholar (Feb 2022–Jun 2025)
Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2024–Jan 2025)
Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2023–Dez 2024)
Sylter Austern. Eine tausendjährige multiperspektivische Beziehungsgeschichte von ostrea und homo sapiens
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jul 2024–Jan 2025)
Scientific genius and model citizen? Werner Heisenberg in the Public Eye of West-Germany
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Feb 2022–Jan 2026)
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)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jun 2024–Mai 2026)
Rolling the Planets, Moving the Heavens: The Astral Science of Play in Early Modern South Asia
IT Security Officer (Since Jan 2023)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2023–Jan 2026)
Bibliometrie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mai 2022–Dez 2024)
Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2021–Jul 2025)
The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024–Aug 2025)
At Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Okt 2023–Dez 2024)
The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms
Rathenau Senior Fellow (Feb 2019–Dez 2024)
History of Mathematics and Physics (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century), History of Technology
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Jan 2025)
Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jul 2020–Feb 2025)
The Merton Project: Science and Political Regimes in the 21st Century
Publications Manager (Mar 2020–Okt 2026)
Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body
Postdoctoral Fellow (Aug 2023–Jul 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep–Nov 2024)
Chinese Climate Knowledge in Local Agricultural Practice: A Study on Yueling and Qihou Discourse in Agriculture Books and Local Gazetteers
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
Contestation of Knowledge in the Collection and Exhibition of Indigenous Objects by Catholic Mission Museums
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2020–Sep 2025)
The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception
Predoctoral Scholar (Jan 2023–Dez 2025)
The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)
Research Scholar (Jan 2018–Nov 2026)
The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition
Research Group Leader (Since Okt 1998)
Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Aug 2021–Aug 2025)
Global Health and Biomedical Research in the Cold War Era
Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2024–Feb 2025)
Bridging Environmental Movements with Arts-Based Research
Emeritus Scholar (Sep 2018–Dez 2024)
History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science
Senior Research Fellow (15 Aug–Dez 2024)
Science and State Power: Histories for an Anthropogenic Age
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2023–Sep 2025)
Number Governance: The Institutionalization of Journal Metrics in the Chinese Science Assessment
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Okt 2022–Sep 2025)
Ecologies of Skins
Digital Content Curator, Departmental Assistant (Okt 2021–Okt 2026)
Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mai 2023–Sep 2025)
PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024–Dez 2026)
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2023–Sep 2025)
The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Predoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022–Mar 2026)
Colorful Encounters: Nature, Science, and Dyes between Europe and China, 1880–1950
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2024–Jan 2025)
Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
Senior Research Scholar, Head of Research Communication and Management
Outreach and Cooperation
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mai 2024–Jan 2025)
Influence of Early Spinor and Complex-Tetrad Formulations of General Relativity on Final Theory Developments