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Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt
Ruhr-University Bochum
Philosophy I
Universitaetsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Germany

Room: FNO 02/16
Phone: +49-(0)234- 32 27999
Fax: +49-(0)234- 32 14744

E-Mail:christina.brandt[at]rub.de


Sprechstunde/Office Hours

In der Vorlesungszeit dienstags von 16.30 bis 17.30 Uhr. In der vorlesungsfreien Zeit nach Vereinbarung.


During the semester every tuesday between 16.30 and 17.30 hrs. During the non-lecutre period by arrangement.

Professor Dr. Christina Brandt



Academic Positions

  • Since 2016 Professor of "History of Life Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology", Institute for Philosophy I & Centre for Anthropological Knowledge in Scientific and Technological Cultures (CAST), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • 2010 - 2016 Professor of "History of Life Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology", Institute for Philosophy I & Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge", Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • 2006 - 2010 Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin ("W2-Minerva Programme for the Advancement of Outstanding Female Scientists in the Max Planck Society“)
  • 2003 - 2006 Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (funded by the DFG)
  • 2001 - 2003 Research Scholar, Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZFL), Berlin
  • 1996 - 2000 Predoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Prof. Dr. H.-J. Rheinberger)

Visiting Positions, Fellowships & Scientific Awards

  • 2013 Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (Sept – Dec)
  • 2009 /2010 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Visiting Professor for Gender Studies, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  • 2009 Visiting professor, Collins Living-Learning Center, Indiana University & Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (Aug – Oct)
  • 2008 /2009 Short Term International Visiting Scholar at the National University of Mexico City (UNAM) (Sep-Oct. 08); at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), University of Exeter (Nov-Dec 08); at the Center for Biology and Society/School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (April 09)
  • 2009 – 2017 Member, Executive Committee "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik (DGGMNT)"
  • 2006 Dalberg Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Thüringen (for the book "Metapher und Experiment") Dalberg Preis - Thüringer Akademiepreis für transdisziplinäre Nachwuchsforschung der Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften zu Erfurt
  • 2005 Junior Scholar Award of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (for the book "Metapher und Experiment") Förderpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik (DGGMNT)
  • 2006 – 2009 Guest Lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin (Department of Biology)
  • 2004- 2009 Guest Lecturer at the Technische Universität Braunschweig (History of Science)