Curriculum

1986-90, Stanford University, CA 

Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems (Artificial Intelligence und Software Engineering) (Advisors: Prof. Dr. John Etchemendy, Prof. Dr. Eckart Förster, Prof. Dr. Michel Serres, Prof. Dr. Amos Tversky) Complementary “Honors” in History of Science (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Galison)

1990-91, University of Cambridge, UK

Master of Philosophy (History and Philosophy of Science)
(Advisors: Prof. Dr. Simon Schaffer, Prof. Dr. Nick Jardine)

1991-98, University of Chicago, IL

Ph.D. History (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston, Prof. Dr. Robert 
Richards, Prof. Dr. Andrew Abbott)

Curriculum

University Positions

Since 2019, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute for Philosophy and Sciences of Art, Visiting Professor

2017-19, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Research Assistant

2016-17, Humboldt University, Berlin, Department of Art and Visual History, Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professorship 

2010-17, Technical University Darmstadt, Institute of Philosophy, Research Assistant

Museum Employment, Free Lance Cultural Coordination and Science Administration

2003-10, Deutsches Museum, Masterpieces of Science and Technology, Munich, Research Fellow

2000-01, Studio 58, London, Project Manager/Curator

1997-2000, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, Research Fellow

Residencies and Commissions 

2014, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, “History of Emotion” group, Visiting Scholar 

Since 2012, Stanford University Program, Berlin, Tutor for “student directed reading”

Summer 2007, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Lecturer

2005-2006, Max Planck Institute for Cognition and Neuroscience, Munich, Research Assistant 

2002-2003, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Post-doctoral Fellow

Summer 2002, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Lecturer

Summer 1999, Psychiatric Hospital, Kazan, Visiting Scholar 

1995-1996, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Pre-doctoral Fellow

1995, Psychiatric Hospital, Emmendingen, Scholar-in-Residence

Summer 1992,  European University, St. Petersburg, Visiting Scholar

Research interests

• Philosophy of Mind and History
• Kant Culture Research
• Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
• Media and Cognition 
• Exchange Relations in the Data Economy