• Lise Meitner Research Group

Research Group Leader (1 Jan 2020-30 Sep 2025)

Dr., professor (University of Oslo)

China in the Global System of Science

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr 2024-31 Okt 2026)

gyalgazi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Head of Human Resources

• Abt. II

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jun-14 Jul 2024)

Climate Alarmism and the 1979 US Energy Crisis

laronowsky@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2024-30 Sep 2025)

• Administration

International Office

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (5 Sep 2022-30 Sep 2025)

Prof. Emeritus

Xi Jinping's Perspectives on Science and Technology

ebaark@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Aug 2023-31 Jul 2025)

Dr.

Dissolution

nbadami@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Feb 2023-30 Jun 2024)

Erfassung der Psyche und Einhegung von Körperlichkeit: Die Geschichte apparativen, psychologischen Testens und das Verhältnis von Hand- und Kopfarbeit

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan 2019-31 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

becchi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Departmental Assistant (Since Jul 2023)

mbeierlein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2024-31 Dez 2025)

ybeirach@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Research IT

Research Scholar, IT Architect (Since Mai 2017)

MRes, MSc, MA, BSc

pbelouin@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Director (Since Jul 2022)

Dr.

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (11 Jan-31 Aug 2024)

sbergstrom@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IT Support

IT Support

mberner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Librarian

Special Collections and Institute’s Bibliography

bertram@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Publications Manager (1 Feb 2022-30 Sep 2025)

fabewley@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Affiliated Scholar (10 Sep 2021-30 Sep 2024)

Dr.

The Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests Over the Twentieth Century

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2024-31 Okt 2026)

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2017-31 Jan 2025)

PhD

MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)

ablum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Aug 2019-31 Dez 2025)

Dr.

Astro-particle Physics 1970s — Early 1980s: Investigating the Patterns and Dynamics of the Emergence Process

• Library

Librarian

Copyright Clearance, E-Books, Image Requests

urte@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Cooperation & Communication

Media Officer (Since Apr 2020)

MPhil

Multimedia Production, Video and Audio Communication

vbraun@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Jun 2020-31 Mai 2025)

Europe’s Research Collaboration with China, 1993-2023: People, Practice and Policy

astrelcova@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Mai 2022-30 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

sbrausch@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Digital Content Curator (15 Sep 2022-14 Sep 2024)

Digital Content Curator Working Group 'Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens' in Abt. III

rbrentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Okt 2023-31 Mar 2027)

Women in British and American astronomical fieldwork in the nineteenth century

• Abt. II

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Aug 2023-31 Jul 2025)

The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary

cbrinitzer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Research Scholar (1 Jul 2023-30 Jun 2026)

Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action

cjbrowne@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Data Analyst (1 Dez 2023-30 Sep 2025)

xbudian@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Departmental Assistant (1 Jun 2020-30 Sep 2025)

dbuidao@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Data Protection Coordinator (Since Jan 2024)

Dr.

• Research IT
• Dept. Daston
• Abt. II

Research Scholar (Since Jan 2002)

Dr.

casties@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Travel Officer

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2024)

jmchase@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Head of Library

MA, MA LIS

echen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III
• Research IT

Senior Research Scholar (Since Jan 2014)

PhD

schen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (19 Jun 2023-30 Sep 2025)

Prof. Dr.

Overseas Development, Foreign Areas and Chinese "World-Writing

hacheng@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Sep 2020-30 Sep 2025)

Dr.

The Reforms of the National Science System of China—Global Models and National Interpretations

schristmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IT Support

IT Support

• Abt. I

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Okt 2023-31 Jan 2026)

Epistemic Everyday Life: A Feminist Analysis of Germany’s Early Modern Printing Business

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Okt 2022-31 Aug 2024)

Prof.

Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics

Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Jul 1995)

PhD, Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago/MPIWG Director 1995–2019

Moral and Natural Orders, History of Scientific Data, Cognitive Practices of Science

• Abt. III

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)

Dr.

Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III - working group "Proteins and Fibers": "Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber"

ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2023-31 Jan 2025)

The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology

adesutter@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2023-30 Jun 2025)

Dr.

Rhône Glacier: A Life in Glaciology

ldiener@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Publications Manager

divarci@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Travel Officer

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Dez 2025)

Definition and division in medieval Latin commentaries on Aristotle’s Historia animalium and De partibus animalium

• Abt. III

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2024)

Dr.

Field Allocation Maps in the Popular Ming Dynasty Encyclopedia and their Afterlife

vdlichtmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Nov 2020-5 Feb 2025)

An Interplay between Chinese Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine from the 18th to Early 20th Century

rdu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2022-31 Aug 2024)

Standardization in Post-War Life Sciences

• IT Support

Head of IT

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-28 Feb 2026)

“Usual Suspects” in “Unusual Locations”: Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Expertise in the Late Ottoman Empire (1855–1922)

zecempulas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2020-30 Sep 2025)

The Geopolitics of Chinese Arctic Research

taeiterjord@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Research Officer (1 Feb 2022-31 Dez 2027)

Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III

relzein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I
• Research IT

Research Technology Officer (1 Jan 2023-28 Feb 2028)

Sphaera Project

• Cooperation & Communication

Research Coordinator (Since Feb 2024)

amenzensberger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Okt 2024)

Dr.

(Un-)Scientific Methods

herlwein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Head of Finance

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Dez 2025)

Prof. Dr.

rfeldhay@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Dept. Daston

Publications Manager (Since Okt 2004)

Dr.

fenger@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Head of Purchasing

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Jul 2021-30 Jun 2026)

Scales of Validity

afreeborn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2023-31 Jul 2024)

Fabricating Modern Fibers: Metaphors, Models, and Artifacts in Molecular Biology, 1920-1958

efreedman@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (16 Jan 2023-31 Dez 2024)

Doctoral candidate at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari Università Venezia in the ERC-project Early Modern Cosmology Editorial Manager for Verum Factum: Studies and Sources on Political Epistemology (EOA book series).

The Unity of Science in the Anthropocene

sfreyberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Jun 2023-30 Sep 2025)

Dr.

Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China

fmfroehlich@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Jan 2025)

The Classical Age of Quantum Gravity: from Dirac to Wheeler

sfurlan@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Librarian

Interlibrary Loan

garske@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Jan 2026)

PhD, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, UK

Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Old Church Slavonic

fbgeller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Nov 2022-31 Jan 2026)

PhD, Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies University College London

The Survival of Cuneiform Writing and Knowledge of Akkadian (Babylonian)

mgeller@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan-30 Jun 2024)

egeorganteli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2012-1 Jan 2025)

Dr.

Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy

dgermanese@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Publications Manager (1 Okt 2020-30 Sep 2027)

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Mar 2025)

Prof. Dr.

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Jan 2025)

Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan 2016-31 Jan 2026)

Prof. Dr.

Computational History of Science

grasshoff@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Jul 2020-30 Sep 2025)

Forging ahead under a Changing Sky: Meteorological Services and Crop Seed Breeding as Climate Change Adaptation in China

jgrossebley@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Publications Manager

ggrzimek@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Scholar (12 Jul-15 Aug 2024)

Prof. Dr.

The Politicization of Science in China: A Case Study of Smog Governance

cgu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Jun-15 Sep 2024)

The Shi-Model and the Visuality of Cosmology in Early and Medieval China

• Abt. III

Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr-31 Jul 2024)

sgupta@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2026)

Cellulosenitrat: Eine Materialgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften, 1849–1951

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2024-31 Okt 2026)

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2020-30 Sep 2025)

Scientific Journals and the Transparency of Research: From 20th Century to Open Science

mmhan@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Senior Research Fellow (1 Mai-31 Aug 2024)

Dr.

The Impossible Science: A Critical Sociology of Pain Science

ahanemaayer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan-31 Okt 2024)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Mai 2024-31 Okt 2026)

Israel's AI's and Energy policies: Different Rationalities?

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-28 Feb 2026)

Ignorance in the Age of Text: “Ignorant” Readers and Their Reading in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

jhellstenius@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Research Data Manager (Since Mai 2021)

Dr. , MA LIS

shennicke@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Head of Administration

khhofmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Research Officer (Since Okt 2022)

Dr.

khinrichsen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Librarian

Library Systems, Digitization, Reference Management

hinrich@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2024-31 Jan 2025)

• Abt. I

Emeritus Scholar (16 Jan 2023-31 Jan 2026)

Prof. Dr. emeritus

Geschichte der Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt

dh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Cooperation & Communication

Deputy Head of Communications (Since Apr 2016)

MSc

Research Communication; Science and Society; Public Outreach

shood@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III
• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Mai 2021-30 Apr 2025)

Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian

rthowey@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Publications Manager (1 Nov 2021-30 Jun 2026)

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2024)

rjackson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2022-31 Jan 2025)

Prof. Dr.

jcjohnson@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2026)

Beyond Leaves: Cultivating Knowledge in Books of Hours (1470–1520)

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2024)

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (15 Jan 2023-31 Dez 2024)

• Library

IT Researcher

MA

Event Recording, Reference Management, Media Library

kern@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Librarian

Interlibrary Loan

rkessentini@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Research Group Leader (1 Apr 2021-30 Jun 2026)

Dr.

Practices of Validation in Biomedical Research

lkeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-28 Feb 2026)

The Politics of Music Capturing. Music Information Retrieval and Ethnomusicological Research, 1900–1970

cklauke@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Affiliated Scholar (1 Feb 2020-31 Dez 2025)

Prof. Dr.

The Early History of the Sciences of Earth Systems and Human-Earth Interactions

klein@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2023-30 Jun 2026)

Dr.

Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in 20th-century Brain Science

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (18 Aug 2014-31 Dez 2025)

Dr.

Apokalypse Frau? Feminismus, Föten und "Fake News"

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (14 Nov 2022-31 Aug 2024)

The Cooperation of German and Ukrainian Scientists in Agricultural Research (19th to First Half of the 20th Century)

• Administration

Facility Management

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2018-31 Okt 2026)

Prof. Dr.

Knowledge Ensouled: Premodern Experience of the Natural World

kkrause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Jan 2026)

Prof. Dr.

Alfonsine Astronomers at Work: Computing Daily Planetary Positions, 1330 - 1560

rkremer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Reception / Post

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Aug 2022-31 Jan 2026)

Dr.

Applying the socio-epistemic network methodology to the history of recent physical sciences

rlalli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Facility Management

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (25 Dez 2022-31 Jul 2024)

Open Science in University-Industry Research Collaboration in the EU and China

aslattu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2024)

Dr.

Chinese Theories, Korean Praxis, and Making the Most out of Nature: Cross-Border Science-Making in the Sinosphere

klee@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Emeritus Scholar (1 Mar 2006-31 Dez 2024)

Dr., Außerordentlicher Professor an der Freien Universität Berlin

Machine Drawings

wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2017-31 Jan 2025)

PhD

Stephen Hawking's Attempts to Unify Physics (1970s-2010s): A Contribution Toward the Year of Quantum Science

jaleon@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2019-30 Jun 2024)

PhD, Dept. of History University College London

Technologies of Health c. 1450-1750

eleong@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Nov 2022-30 Jan 2025)

Dr.

Rethinking the role of unified field theory for physics

blessel@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (10 Dez 2023-10 Dez 2024)

• Abt. III

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun-31 Aug 2024)

Atmospherics in Chinese Art

• Library

Deputy Head of the Library

Acquisitions and Cataloguing

macphail@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Jul 2024)

Dr.

Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise

amamidipudi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Departmental Assistant (1 Mai 2023-30 Apr 2025)

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (16 Jun 2024-31 Okt 2026)

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Predoctoral Scholar (17 Aug 2020-16 Aug 2024)

Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US

ymao@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2024-31 Jan 2025)

• Abt. III

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)

Dr.

Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World

smastorakou@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Software Developer (1 Apr 2024-31 Dez 2025)

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2021-30 Jun 2026)

Dr.

Concepts as Technologies

• Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)

Research Group Leader (1 Apr 2024-31 Mar 2029)

Prof. Dr.

amisra@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Publications Manager (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2025)

kmohelsky@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

External Scientific Member (1 Jun 2020-31 Mai 2027)

Prof. Dr. Emeritus

gmost@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2019-31 Dez 2024)

Text and Context in Early Islamic Scholarship: A Ninth-Century Paraphrase of Ptolemaic Astronomy in Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy

rmousavi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dez 2022-31 Jan 2025)

Philip Anderson Against the Big Machines: And How Emergence Made its Way into Physics

ngargante@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Program Coordinator (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2024)

Dr. habil.

Research Program Africa Initiative; Saharan climates, oasis gardens and social insects. A history of “local” science in changing environments" (individual project)

tmusch@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2024-31 Okt 2026)

Management Officer

tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb-31 Jul 2024)

engueum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

HR Officer

• Abt. III

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Okt 2022-28 Feb 2025)

Dr.

A history of ‘Making Things’ in West Africa, 1920-1980: creating meaning making and experience

• Abt. II

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2028)

Dr.

Communities of Reproductive Knowledge

jolszynko@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2018-31 Jan 2026)

Prof. Dr.

The Water City: The Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis

• Abt. III

Senior Research Scholar (Since Sep 2017)

PhD

lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2023-30 Apr 2025)

From Recipients of Knowledge to Producers: Indigenous Peasants’ Knowledge and Sustainable Farming in Peru (1950-2010)

aosorio@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Apr 2024-31 Mar 2025)

Dr.

The Photographic Dome of the Yale Clinic of Child Development

cossmer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Subject Librarian for Chinese Studies

Chinese Library Material

cpaethe@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (7 Nov 2022-31 Jul 2024)

Prof.

The History of the Accademia dei Lincei, 1870-2000

gpaoloni@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Research Scholar (Since Aug 2014)

PhD, Honorary Associate Professor

oparnes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IT Support

IT Support

• Library

Librarian

Journals

apietzke@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2026)

Agrochemical Transformations and their Knowledge Resources in Egypt, 1882–1952

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Sep 2022-28 Feb 2026)

Science before Nature: An Epistemology of Perspectives in the Commentaries of Cuneiform Scholarly Traditions

saquaijtaal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mai 2023-31 Jan 2025)

An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Okt 2023-31 Mar 2027)

Tracing an Epistemic Genre: Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections as Resources of Knowledge

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mai-30 Jun 2024)

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2024-31 Okt 2026)

jreed@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (16 Sep 2019-15 Mar 2025)

Professor, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Nuclear Diplomacy and the IAEA

mrentetzi@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Emeritus Scientific Member (Since Apr 2022)

Dr., Honorarprofessor für Wissenschaftsgeschichte an der TU Berlin, Dr.h.c. ETH Zürich, MPIWG Director 1997–2014

A Phenomenology of the Experiment

rheinbg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2022-31 Jan 2026)

grispoli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 Dez 2024)

Symbiotic Worlding: Theories and Practices of Coexistence in Lynn Margulis and Donna Haraway

srodeck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Max Planck Sabbatical Award Laureate (1 Sep 2021-31 Aug 2024)

Prof.

Reckoning with Deep Time

sroosth@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Senior Research Scholar (15 Mai-15 Aug 2024)

ggrosenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (1 Sep 2022-30 Nov 2024)

Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene

rosol@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Feb 2022-30 Jun 2025)

Dr.

Heilkunde oder Philosophie? Die syrische Überlieferung der Medizin zwischen Empirie und Tradition

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2025)

Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis

pdolano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (16 Jan 2023-31 Dez 2024)

Prof. Dr.

Sylter Austern. Eine tausendjährige multiperspektivische Beziehungsgeschichte von ostrea und homo sapiens

• Abt. III

Director (Since Apr 2013)

Dr., Professor, TU Berlin, FU Berlin

Histories of Planning

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Feb 2022-31 Jan 2026)

Dr., Professor, Universität Hamburg

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)

schemmel@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Jun 2024-31 Mai 2026)

Rolling the Planets, Moving the Heavens: The Astral Science of Play in Early Modern South Asia

jschmidtmadsen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Third Party Funding Coordination

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Jan 2023-31 Jan 2026)

Dipl. Soz.

Bibliometrie in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte

schoepfl@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mai 2022-30 Jun 2024)

Prof. Dr.

Marc Bloch: The Philosophy of an Historian

pschoettler@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

HR Officer

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (15 Mar 2024-31 Aug 2028)

Prof. Dr.

• Abt. II

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Apr 2023-30 Sep 2024)

Dr.

The Use and Reuse of Paper in the Humanities

lschuessler@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Academic Coordinator (1 Sep 2021-31 Aug 2028)

sschwarzmaier@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mai 2022-31 Dez 2024)

Dr.

Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile

hschwenke@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Library

Librarian

Interlibrary Loan

schwerdt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jan-31 Dez 2024)

• Abt. I

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2021-31 Jul 2025)

The Evolution of Visual Language in Early Modern Cosmology

• Abt. I

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Okt 2023-31 Dez 2024)

The Analysis, Interpretation, and Mediation of History Using Digital Research Methods and Tools. An Investigation into their History-Producing Mechanisms

asiebold@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Rathenau Senior Fellow (1 Feb 2019-31 Dez 2024)

Dr.

History of Mathematics and Physics (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century), History of Technology

• Abt. II

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Okt 2024)

The Other Ancient Egypt. Writing Histories in the Sciences and Humanities of Deep Time, 1800-1920.

asimon-stickley@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. II

Publications Manager (Since Jan 2024)

jsittmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Accounting

• IT Support

IT Support

jsteinhoff@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2021-31 Aug 2028)

Prof. Dr.

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Jan 2025)

Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (15 Jul 2020-28 Feb 2025)

Prof. Dr.

The Merton Project: Science and Political Regimes in the 21st Century

rstichweh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Research Program Coordinator (1 Nov 2023-31 Okt 2026)

akstrob@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Publications Manager (1 Mar 2020-31 Okt 2026)

Dr.

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

ksturge@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2023-31 Jul 2025)

lsummers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Aug 2026)

Contestation of Knowledge in the Collection and Exhibition of Indigenous Objects by Catholic Mission Museums

• Abt. III

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Okt 2023-31 Okt 2024)

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-30 Sep 2025)

The Coimbra Commentaries' Doctrine of Sense Perception

ytao@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Research Scholar

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2021-31 Aug 2028)

Prof. Dr.

• Administration

Head of Construction / Facilities

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Aug 2028)

Prof. Dr.

tkaczyk@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration

Accounting

• Administration

Purchasing Officer

• Abt. III

Predoctoral Scholar (1 Jan 2023-31 Dez 2025)

The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)

nktsui@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (15 Jan 2018-25 Nov 2026)

PhD

The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition

tturnbull@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Group Leader (Since Okt 1998)

Dr., Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Professor for Special Appointment, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Technology Transfer in Antiquity, Ancient Hydromechanics and Pneumatics, Early modern mechanics, Galileo Galilei, Shipbuilding, Pratolino Garden, Jesuits' Hydraulics, Early Modern Ballistics

valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (2 Aug 2021-30 Jun 2026)

Dr.

Global Health and Biomedical Research in the Cold War Era

dvargha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Emeritus Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dez 2024)

Dr., Honorarprofessorin HU Berlin

History of Mathematics and Science in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, esp. in Germany; Women in Science

vogt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Administration
• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

HR Officer, Departmental Assistant

• Abt. II

Principal Investigator (Since Jun 2005)

Prof. Dr.

Research Group: Data, Media, Mind

coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Senior Research Fellow (15 Aug-15 Dez 2024)

Prof. Dr.

Science and State Power: Histories for an Anthropogenic Age

jeswang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jul 2023-30 Sep 2025)

Number Governance: The Institutionalization of Journal Metrics in the Chinese Science Assessment

• IMPRS

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (1 Apr 2021-31 Aug 2028)

Prof. Dr.

• Administration

Reception / Post

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Visiting Senior Research Fellow (17 Okt 2022-30 Sep 2024)

Dr.

Ecologies of Skins

• Abt. III

Departmental Assistant

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb-31 Aug 2024)

gwcampbell@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Mai 2021-30 Sep 2024)

German Scientists, their Observations, and Institutional Ties to the New World in the Seventeenth Century

twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. I

Research Scholar (Since Jan 2000)

Dr.-Ing.

Research IT

dwinter@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)

Digital Content Curator, Departmental Assistant (1 Okt 2021-31 Okt 2026)

Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body

• Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Okt 2022-30 Sep 2025)

Dr. Dr.

Validating Laboratory Diagnostics in Medical Parasitology: Morphological and Molecularized Approaches Between Clinical, Epistemic, and Political Interests

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Postdoctoral Scholar (1 Mai 2023-30 Sep 2025)

PhD

PACIFIC CROSSINGS: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Science to China, 1913-1949

cxing@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Research Scholar (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2024)

Dr.

Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.

cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Research Scholar (16 Nov 2020-15 Nov 2024)

Dr.

Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire

qyang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2023-30 Sep 2025)

The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s

xyang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

IT Architect (20 Mar 2017-19 Mar 2025)

IT-Architekt im Projekt Household Encyclopedia

cyeh@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• IMPRS

Predoctoral Scholar (9 Sep 2022-8 Mar 2026)

Colorful Encounters: Nature, Science, and Dyes between Europe and China, 1880–1950

lzeng@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Abt. III

Departmental Assistant

dzhang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Lise Meitner Research Group

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (3 Jan 2024-3 Jan 2025)

Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations

xizhou@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
• Cooperation & Communication

Senior Research Scholar, Head of Cooperation and Communication (Since Jan 2008)

Dr.

Outreach and Cooperation

hjziemer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

• Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe (Final Theory Program)

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mai 2024-31 Jan 2025)