Kärin Nickelsen#
| Membership Number: | 5470 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gn.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/personen/lehrstuhlinhaberin/kaerin_nickelsen/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011, Oct. Full Professor (W3; Chair) in History of Science, LMU Munich
- 2006 - 2011 Associate Professor History & Philosophy of Science, University Bern, Switzerland
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor History & Philosophy of Science, University Bern, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- History and philosophy of the modern biological sciences
- Practices of natural history
- Methodology of the experimental sciences
- Social epistemology
- Generation of knowledge in scientific collectives
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2019 Member of the Committee for Life Sciences, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2018 Member of the Committee for Integrated History & Philosophy of Science (20 members only)
- 2017 Co-opted member of the Centre for Advanced Study, LMU Munich
- 2011 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2010 Dalberg Award for transdisciplinary research at the interface of sciences and humanities
- 2010 Caspar Friedrich Wolff Medal of the German Society for History and Theory of Biology
- 2010 Nomination Suzanne J. Levinson Award of the History of Science Society
- 2005 - 2010 Member of the German Young Academy; member of the Academy’s board 2008 - 2010
- 2005 Honourable mention within the (global) Prize for Young Scholars in History & Philosophy of
- Science (announced by IUHPS/DHS)
- 2002 Wilhelm Dettmering Award for Young Scholars in History of Science and Technology
- 1990 Bronze Medal, International Biology Olympiad (in Makhachkala/Daghestan)
