People



Current PhD Researchers
2024 Cohort
Josephine Koopman — The World in a Box: Snuff Tobacco in the Early Modern Dutch Republic
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2023 Cohort
Ewa Zakrzewska — Embodied encyclopedias and methodical machines: information architecture of academic repositories in the long seventeenth century
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Jakub Ochociński — Calendars in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795): Prognostication, Attention, and Annotation
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Alexandre Claude — Reading Stones. Art, Science and Sensibility in the Early Modern Period (1580-1650)
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2022 Cohort
Marie van Haaster — Practices of Consolation: on the shaping of shared experiences in late 19th century Paris.
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Chiara Lacroix — Altering appearance: Aesthetics and health in the transition to European modernity
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Mónica Morado Vázquez — Tener dos naturas: Sex, Gender and the Lived Body in Early Modern Hermaphroditism
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Simon Werner — Theorizing the Tropics: Late Colonial West Africa in the Social Scientific Imagination, c. 1940-1960
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Dann Grotum — Colonial Climates: Networking Weather Sciences Within and Between Danish Colonies, ca. 1700-1900
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2021 Cohort 
Jan Becker — Colonial Surgery in a Time of Medical Reform: Wouter Schouten in the Dutch Golden Age
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Maxime Guttin — The Cerebral Exploration and the Scientific Construction of Race in France and Europe (1770-1848)
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Timo Houtekamer — Diagnosing Schizophrenia. Interactions in Early-Twentieth-Century Psychiatric Practice
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2020 Cohort

Tunahan Durmaz — Mood, Appetite, and Fever: Understanding Disease in Ottoman Istanbul, 1640-1691
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Liaison Professors

Lauren Kassell — Professor of History of Science at the Department of History at the European University Institute and Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
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Monika Baar — Professor in the History of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe, Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
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Alumni

Zoe Lauri — Post-Doc University of Bologna — (2024 Defence)

Camille Sallé — (ATER) Attachée temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche à l'UFR LLSH, France— (2023 Defence)

Louis Le Douarin — (ATER) Attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche (Aix-Marseille University, France)— (2022 Defence)

Gabriele Marcon — Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna (Austria), ESPIRIT Program, Austrian Science Fund — (2022 Defence)

Ekaterina Rybkyna — Postdoctoral research fellow, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany — (2021 Defence)


Martin Vailly — (ATER) Université de Strasbourg Faculté de Médecine — (2020 Defence) 

Bohdan Shumylovych — Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University — (2020 Defence) 

Jose Beltran — Permenent Research Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Le Mans, France — (2020 Defence)  

Mikko Toivanen — Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut  Global History Visiting Scholar — (2019 Defence)

Déborah Dubald — Lecturer in the History of Science and Health at Université de Strasbourg — (2019 Defence) 

Simon Dumas Primbault — Researcher Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne — (2018 Defence)  

Annelie Grosse — Researcher Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities — (2018 Defence)

Mikkel Munthe Jensen —  Project director of the DFG Project (eigene Stelle). “Institutionalising the law of nature and nations: The universities of Kiel, Greifswald and Rostock 1648–1806” (since 01.07.2024 hosted at IZEA, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) — (2017 Defence) 

Catherine Gibson — Lecturer in East European & Eurasian Studies at the Johann Skytte Institute of Political Studies (Tartu, Estonia) — (2015 Defence) 

William Carruthers — Lecturer School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Essex, UK — Max Weber Fellow 2014-2015


Former Liaison Professors

2013-20Stéphane Van Damme 
Professor in the History of Science 



Convenors
2025-26



2024-25


2023-24







2022-23




2021-22


2020-21


2017-19

2016-17


2014-16


Ewa Zakrzewska
Josephine Koopman
Jakub Ochocinski

Ewa Zakrzewska
Jakub Ochocinski

Chiara Lacroix 
Marie van Haaster
Timo Houtekamer
Simon Werner
Tunahan Durmaz



Timo Houtekamer
Jan Becker
Maxime Guttin 


Gabriele Marcon
Zoe Lauri 

Gabriele Marcon
Zoe Lauri 

Louis Le Douarin 

Catherine Gibson 
Martin Vailly

Déborah Dubald 
Jose Beltran









Current convenors: 
Ewa Zakrzewska Josephine Koopman Jakub Ochocinski

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