Prof. Dr. Christoph Hoffmann

Professor of Science Studies

T +41 41 229 56 10
christoph.hoffmann@unilu.ch

Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 3.A40
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Christoph Hoffmann | Studied German Literature and History in Frankfurt/Main and Freiburg im Breisgau. Ph.D. in 1995 at the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg i. Br. (»Der Dichter am Apparat. Medientechnik, Experimentalpsychologie und Texte Robert Musils 1899–1942«; München 1997). Habilitation in 2004 at the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder (»Unter Beobachtung. Naturforschung in der Zeit der Sinnesapparate«; Göttingen 2006). Postdoctoral fellow at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. 2004-2010 Research Scholar and Co-Leader of the Working Group »Knowledge in the Making« at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Since March 2010 Profesor of Science Studies at the University of Lucerne. 

Research fellow at the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin (2001), at the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart (2004), and at the IFK, Vienna (2006). In fall 2008 Visiting Professor at the Department for Germanic Languages & Literatures, Columbia University, New York.