Background
I am an historian of ideas and science (M.Sc.) with a broad interest in the history of science from the 18th century onwards. I have been especially interested in the circulation, consolidation, and creation of scientific communities through different media and genres.
Current project
My current ph.d.-project studies the emergence of the modern science textbook genre in 18th century Denmark as part of the VELUX-funded project “The Rise of Science and Fiction during the Danish Enlightenment”. Using Gianna Pomata’s concept of “epistemic genres”, I analyze textbooks as ways of knowing, writing, and establishing epistemic communities. I do so via case studies of experimentalphysics (C.G. Kratzenstein, Newtonianism, and Wolffianism), natural history (orders of knowledge, cameralist science, and J.W. Hornemann), applied mathematics (Jens Kraft and the ‘Newtonian textbook’), and textbook targeting children. The project expands an ongoing interest in the history of the science textbook which I have studied in the context of 19th century university chemistry and 20th century high school physics.
Previous Projects and other interests
Prior to my ph.d.-studies, I gained teaching experience as a teaching assistant at science departments (CSS at AU, IND at Copenhagen University). Currently I planned and taught a 10-ECTS master level course on Enlightenment and its cultural reception. Working as a research assistant and as a post-graduate, I have studied and published peer reviewed papers on the science’s imagined pasts (2020), scientific expeditions (2021), gender (2020), and the history of modern ice core science (2021a, 2021b).
Being an experienced science museum educator, I am interested in developing science communication attentive to Nature of Science (NOS)-approaches, socio-scientific issues (SSI), and material culture e.g. object-based learning and visual thinking strategies (VST).
