Contacts
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Verena Braun (Media Officer)Verena Braun (+49 30 22667 296, room 252) is Media Officer at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She manages the Institute’s audiovisual media productions, including developing new formats, producing and editing material, and managing the online presentation of multimedia projects.
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Alina Enzensberger (Research Coordinator)Alina Enzensberger (+49 30 22667 351, room 259) is the Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is responsible for supporting the development of the Institute's research events program with the aim of facilitating scholarly dialogue, designing and implementing career support for junior scholars in various formats as well as advancing the Institute-wide international guest program in liaison with all units of the MPIWG.
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Stephanie Hood (Deputy Head of Communications)Stephanie Hood (+49 30 22667 315, room 252) is Deputy Head of the Communications Team at the Institute. Her main responsibility is in developing the MPIWG's communications strategy, coordinating the Institute's Journalist-in-Residence program, and providing internal consultation and support around communications projects. She also manages the MPIWG's communications team, who work on website, social media, print, and audiovisual media formats, as well as occasional public outreach.
As a researcher she is interested in public communication of research, in particular the social science and humanities. Her areas of focus are environment and medicine, visual culture, and history and sociology of science.
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Niclas Look (Student Assistant)Niclas Look (room 255) is a Student Assistant in the Communications Team of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Together with Lucy Ruth Salmon and Tom Behrendt he works on the pre- and postproduction of audio and video content. Niclas also supports the Media Officer and Deputy Head of Communications in content development, content management, and public outreach via the MPIWG's media outlets.
Niclas is currently completing his Bachelors degree in communication science and philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. His focus lies on network studies and the affordances, the economy, and the effects of social media services.
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Lucy Ruth Salmon (Research Assistant)Lucy Ruth Salmon (room 255) supports the Head of Cooperation and Communication and the Deputy Head of the Communications Team with the Institute's press and communications. This includes media relations, writing, editing, and translation for the website and social media, as well as print and communication design. She also assists the Media Officer with video recordings and maintaining the Institute’s Mediathek.
Lucy is currently completing her Masters degree in art and visual history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research traces the cultural history of the body, medicine, and mental health through its representation in eighteenth and nineteenth century visual media. In her study she places a focus on transcultural perspectives of history examining how images of illness and knowledge about illness traveled across the globe and formed common tropes.
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Hansjakob Ziemer (Head of Research Communication and Management )Hansjakob Ziemer (+49 30 22667 242, room 254) is Head of Research Communication and Management at the Institute. He is responsible for creating and maintaining cooperations with Institutes worldwide. Hansjakob also coordinates teaching exchanges with other institutions.
