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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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Yvonne Luks

[email protected]
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Sascha Hilgert (M.A.)

[email protected]

Distinguished Professorial Fellows

Dr. Jeremy Butterfield

Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Distinguished Scholar at the Black Hole Initiative

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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

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Senior Research Fellows

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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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AR Dr. Dr. Christian Röken

Senior Researcher in the project  “The role of inference to the best explanation in the discovery of gravitational waves” of the DFG-Research Unit "Inductive Metaphysics"

Senior Researcher in the Volkswagen-Foundation Project "Solutions as the Solution to Understanding General Relativity"
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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

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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

 Dr. Gal Ben Porath

Heinrich Hertz Fellow
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Dr. Dr. Daniel Grimmer

Heinrich Hertz Fellow



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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"

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"
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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

Research Assistants

Johannes Huse
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Elea Reinke
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Kartik Tiwari

Former Group Members

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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"
Jonathan Fay

Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow

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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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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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Dr. Adam Koberinski (University of Pittsburgh)

Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Summer Semester 2021

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Dr. Sjang ten Hagen (Leiden University)

Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Winter Semester 2020-21
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Dr. Joshua Eisenthal (Caltech)

​Former Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Winter Semester 2020-21

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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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Dr. Tushar Menon (Cambridge University)

Heinrich Hertz Fellow, Summer Semester 2020
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Frauke Stoll
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Gianni Klesen
Lenja Koch

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Student Assistant
Dijedona Dani

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Student Assistant
Image Credit for the Header: ESA/Hubble
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