New Professor for the History of Science: Annette Imhausen
05 January 2009
Annette Imhausen becomes professor for the history of science of the pre-modern world within the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”.
Imhausen explores the role of science in the establishment and justification of normative orders in the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Within the Clusters's research programme she will focus e.g. on how mathematical methods were applied to control compliance with work norms.
Annette Imhausen studied mathematics, chemistry and egyptology at the University of Mainz (first Staatsexamen 1996) and egyptology and assyriology at Freie Universität Berlin before she received her PhD in history of mathematics in 2000. Imhausen was a postdoctoral fellow at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and the MIT (2000-2002) and a junior research fellow at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2002-2006) before she accepted a position as assistant professor in the history of mathematics at the University of Mainz.
