Overview
DirectorGroup Administration and Research Project CoordinationDistinguished Professorial FellowsSenior Research FellowsPostdoctoral FellowsDoctoral FellowsResearch AssistantsFormer Group MembersGroup Photos |
Director
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Prof. Dr. Dennis Lehmkuhl
Chair of Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; Lichtenberg Professor of History and Philosophy of Physics. |
Group Administration and Research Project Coordination
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Distinguished Professorial Fellows
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Dr. Jeremy Butterfield
Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge Distinguished Scholar at the Black Hole Initiative |
Prof. Dr. Samuel Fletcher
Humboldt Visiting Professor Professor of Philosophy of Physics at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Philosophy)www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/ Fellow at Merton College External Member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität |
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Prof. Dr. Michel Janssen
Visiting Professor Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
Senior Research Fellows
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AR Dr. Dr. Christian Röken
Researcher in the ERC "Center of Gravity (COGY) Project" |
Dr. Bernadette Lessel
Senior Researcher History of unified field theory and general relativity; more generally interested in the interplay between mathematics and physics throughout history Employed in the ERC "Center of Gravity (COGY) Project" |
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Dr. Martin L. King
Postdoctoral Fellow in the project "Model Building and Dynamics" of the DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" DFG Eigene Stelle "Deep Learning in Particle Physics: A Philosophical Analysis" (MCMP Munich) |
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Dr. Lucy James
Heinrich Hertz Fellow 2025/2026 Current projects:
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Dr. Gal Ben Porath
Employed in the ERC "Center of Gravity (COGY) Project" |
Doctoral Fellows
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Nurida Boddenberg
Doctoral Researcher in the project "Model Building and Dynamics" of the DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" |
Sophia Haude (Bonn & RWTH Aachen)
Doctoral Researcher in the project "LHC and Gravity" of the DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" Bonn/St. Andrews Collaboration "The Gravitational Constant 1890-1915 – From the Local to the Universal" |
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Erfan Kasraie
Doctoral Researcher, PhD project: "Erkenntnistheoretische Bemerkungen zur IBE und mathematischen Extrapolation in der modernen Kosmologie" |
Berkay Gümus
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Research Assistants
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Elea Reinke
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Kartik Tiwari
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Former Group Members
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Dr. Erik Curiel
Senior Researcher Distinguished Scholar at the Black Hole Initiative Principal Investigator at the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime Consortium |
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Dr. Noah Stemeroff
Humboldt Fellow, “Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the History of Gauge Field Theory“ Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Autumn 2021 Former Postdoctoral Fellow (2021) in the project “The role of inference to the best explanation in the discovery of gravitational waves” of the DFG-Research Unit "Inductive Metaphysics" |
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Dr. Juliusz Doboszewski
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Volkswagen-Foundation Project "Solutions as the Solution to Understanding General Relativity" Co-lead of the Algorithms, Inferences & Visualisations focus group of the History Philosophy Culture working group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration |
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Dr. Antonis Antoniou
Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in a project on "The epistemology of Dark Matter Astrophysics" External Research Collaborator at the Project NoMos 'Laws & Powers in the Metaphysics of Science', at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
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Dr. Jamee Elder (Tufts University & Black Hole Initiative Harvard)
Collaborator and recurring visitor in the project “The role of inference to the best explanation in the discovery of gravitational waves” of the DFG-Research Unit "Inductive Metaphysics". Co-lead of the Algorithms, Inferences & Visualisations focus group of the History Philosophy Culture working group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Former co-lead of the Foundations focus group of the History Philosophy Culture working group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Academic Year 2019/2020 |
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Dr. Niels Martens (Utrecht University & Black Hole Initiative Harvard)
Bonn/St. Andrews Collaboration "The Gravitational Constant 1890-1915 – From the Local to the Universal" Co-lead of the Collaborations focus group of the History Philosophy Culture working group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Former Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-22) in the project "LHC and Gravity" of the DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" |
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Alex Mathie
Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow |
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Dr. Jan Potters (University of Antwerp)
Bonn/St. Andrews Collaboration "The Gravitational Constant 1890-1915 – From the Local to the Universal" Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Academic Year 2021-22 |
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Johannes Huse
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Evangelia Siopi
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Dr. Ann C Thresher (Stanford University & Black Hole Initiative Harvard)
Co-lead of the Siting focus group of the History Philosophy Culture working group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Summer Semester 2022 |
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Jan Głowacki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Winter Semester 2020-21 |
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Dr. Cristin Chall
Postdoctoral Fellow, DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" Doctoral researcher in the project "Model Building and Dynamics" of the DFG-Research Unit "The Epistemology of the LHC" |
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Kian Salimkhani (Universität zu Köln)
PhD student in the project "Modality in Physics" of the DFG-Research Unit "Inductive Metaphysics" |
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Taimara Passero (Universidade de São Paulo)
Visiting PhD student, funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); Winter Semester 2019/2020 |
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Patrick Dürr (Oxford University)
Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Academic Year 2019/2020 |
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Frauke Stoll
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Gianni Klesen
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Lenja Koch
Student Assistant |
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Dijedona Dani
Student Assistant |
Group Photos
Lichtenberg Group 2024
Lichtenberg Group 2022
© Nurida Boddenberg
Lichtenberg Group 2019
