Dinah Pfau

History of Science and Technology

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Professional Experience

2024 – Now

Postdoctoral Researcher

Deutsches Museum Munich

In the DFG project “Artificial Vision at Work” at the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science of the Deutsches Museum Munich. PI: Rudolf Seising.

2024

Doctoral Researcher

C²DH, University of Luxembourg

2020 – 2024

Doctoral Researcher

Deutsches Museum Munich

In the BMBF project “IGGI: Ingenieur-Geist und Geistes-Ingenieure. Eine Geschichte der Künstlichen Intelligenz” at the Research Institute for the History of Technology and Science of the Deutsches Museum Munich. PI: Rudolf Seising

2013 – 2020

Freelance Illustrator

2017 – 2020

Cultural Embassador

Kulturprojekte Berlin

2013 – 2020

Student Assistant

Diverse Employers

Academic Experience

2021 – 2024

Doctorate en Histoire

C²DH, University of Luxembourg

Title: Den Bildern auf der Spur. Epistemologische Praktiken der Bildverarbeitung und Mustererkennung in Teilchenphysik, Nachrichtentechnik und Informatik in der BRD 1950–1980. (On the trail of the image. Epistemological practices of image processing and pattern recognition in particle physics, communications engineering and computer science in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950–1980.)

Defended: December 2024 Examination committee: Stefan Krebs, Valérie Schafer, Andreas Fickers, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, and Gabriele Schabacher.

The Thesis was nominated for the Excellent Thesis Award of the University of Luxembourg.

2014 – 2019

MA Cultural Studies

Humboldt-University of Berlin

Thesis: Klimarauschen. Automatisierung des Meteorologischen Bodenmessdienstes in der DDR. (Climate noise. Automation of the Meteorological Ground Measurement Service in the GDR.)

Supervisors: Christian Kassung, Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam)

2016 – 2017

MA Cultural Studies, SEMP Scholarship

University of Lucerne

2013 – 2014

BA Informatics (Computer Science)

Technische Universität Berlin

2009 – 2014

BA Culture and Technology

Technische Universität Berlin

2011

BA Culture and Technology, DAAD Scholarship

Zhe’Da University Hangzhou, China