MPIWG

The Sphere Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe

People

Nineteen people work at the project The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe, based in five different areas located at the level of institute infrastructure (Communication, IT, and Library) and the research unit of Department I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

The first area concerns the historical research; the second, the development of Digital Humanities tools; the third the acquisition of the historical sources, of which the corpus is constituted; the fourth the presentation and the digital output of the project, and the fifth support concerning the production and cleaning of metadata as well as bibliographic research and acquisition of necessary secondary literature.

  • Sabine Bertram

    Head of Collection

    Sabine Bertram is responsible for the rare books department of the library. She collects all the electronic copies of the treatises that belong to the early modern corpus of the Sphaera’s tradition.

  • Victoria Beyer

    Data Curation Assistant

  • Jochen Büttner

    Historian, Machine Learning Developer

  • Esther Chen

    Head of the Library

    Esther Chen is Head of the Library at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

  • Nana Citron

    Data Curation Assistant

  • Oliver Eberle

    Machine Learning Researcher

    Affiliation:

    TU Berlin

  • Hassan El-Hajj

    Data Curator and Digital Humanities Developer

  • Beate Federau

    Data Curation Assistant

  • Gesa Funke

    Data Curation Assistant

  • Stephanie Hood

    Editing & Communication

    Stephanie Hood curates the website of the project and supports its outreach.

  • Anna I. Siebold

    PhD Candidate of History

    Affiliation:

    Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
    Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

  • Florian Kräutli

    IT Developer

    Florian Kräutli’s research revolves around digital tools for knowledge production in the humanities. He specializes in data visualization and computational research methods in the qualitative sciences.

  • Salome König

    Data Curation Assistant

  • Daan Lockhorst

    Project Assistant (Research IT)

  • Grégoire Montavon

    Machine Learning Researcher

    Affiliation:

    TU Berlin

  • Andrea Ottone

    Historian

    Affiliation:

    EMo Book Trade Project

  • Christoph Sander

    Historian

    Christoph Sander is an expert in Medieval and Early Modern scientific text traditions and is currently investigating, in the frame of this project, the relation between the tradition of Sacrobosco’s De sphaera and the Catholic censorship.
    Affiliation:
    Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

  • Noga Shlomi

    Historian

    Affiliation:

    Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

  • Irina Tautschnig

    Historian

    Affiliation:

    Universität Innsbruck. Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen Bereich Gräzistik und Latinistik / Projekt Noscemus

    Austria

  • Matteo Valleriani

    Research Group Leader / Principal Investigator

    Matteo Valleriani is concerned with the evolution of the scientific knowledge system in thirteenth- to seventeenth-century Europe. He also develops mathematical network models for history writing.

  • Malte Vogl

    Data Analyst

  • Maryam Zamani

    Physicist

    Affiliation:

    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden