Abstract image of the Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klint

The Tree of Knowledge, HaK133  by Hilma af Klint. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation

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Director (Since Apr 2013)

Dr., Professor, TU Berlin, FU Berlin

Histories of Planning

MPIWG Dept. 3

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Research Officer (1 Feb 2022-31 Dec 2027)

Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III

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Senior Research Scholar (Since Jan 2014)

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Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World

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lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

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Dr.

Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire

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Visiting Scholar (2 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2025)

Prof. Dr.

Itineraries of Astral Imagery and Their Economic Contexts Between 500 BCE and 1500 CE

brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

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

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PhD

schen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

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Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2024-31 Dec 2024)

Dr.

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

vdlichtmann@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2020-5 Feb 2025)

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

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

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

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Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-29 Feb 2024)

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Prof.

hat was, who were, and where were yi from 12th- to 16th-century China?

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Colonialism and Development Studies: A Problematic Relation

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Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian

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PhD

Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens: Image Database Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)

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Dr.

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

klee@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Feb 2024-15 Jun 2024)

yiwli@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Jul 2022-31 Oct 2023)

Prof. Dr.

The Nile and its Major Projects during the Mamluk Period im Rahmen der Working Group: Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100-1700) in Abt. III

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

Dr.

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

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Research Scholar (1 Sep 2022-31 Aug 2025)

Dr.

Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World

smastorakou@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Visiting Scholar (1 Aug 2023-30 Apr 2024)

ccmavhunga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

Dr.

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

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PhD

lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Postdoctoral Fellow (7 Sep 2021-31 Dec 2023)

Dr.

Civilisation and Human/Animal Division in Russian Nineteenth-Century Medical Topographies and Ethnographic Accounts

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Jan 2024)

jqiu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Affiliated Scholar (1 Jan 2021-31 Dec 2023)

Prof.

Rethinking East Asian Medicines, 1100 to the present.

Visiting Scholar (1 May 2022-31 Dec 2024)

Dr.

Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile

hschwenke@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

Dr.

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

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2018-31 Oct 2023)

PhD

Chinese Climate Knowledge in Local Agricultural Practice: A Study on Yueling and Qihou Discourse in Agriculture Books and Local Gazetteers

msun@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

Research Scholar

Predoctoral Fellow (1 Jan 2023-31 Dec 2025)

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

nktsui@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

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

Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2023-31 May 2024)

Prof. Dr.

The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road

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Dr.

Heavenly Knowledge, World Empire

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IT-Architekt im Projekt Household Encyclopedia

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