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About Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger holds an ma in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Biology from
the Freie Universität Berlin. He was a scientific employee at the Max-Planck-Institut
für molekulare Genetik in Berlin, Lecturer at the Universität zu Lübeck, Associate
Professor at the Universität Salzburg, and from 1996 to 2014, Director of the Max-Planck-
Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. He has held visiting posts at, among others, Stanford
University, eth Zurich, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme and the École des
hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in
Hayama. He has been a Fellow at, among others, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Collegium
Helveticum in Zurich, and the ifk Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in
Vienna.
Among his books are Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test