DH@CERES

Information about the person and research at: https://ch-sander.github.io/

Click here for the complete list of publications by Prof. Dr. Christoph Sander.

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Appointments by email arrangement

• Digital Humanities
• History of Knowledge and Science in the Early Modern Period
• Religious studies research on Christianity in the early modern period

Since 2025 | Assistant Professor (W1 with tenure track) for “Digital Humanities in Religious Studies” at Ruhr University Bochum

2025 | ERC Starting Grant recipient for “Science and Dogma (SCIGMA) Tracing Natural Knowledge within Scholastic Theology (1545–1789)”

2023 – 2025 | Postdoctoral researcher (knowledge and software engineer), German Historical Institute, Rome. Responsible for Digital Humanities within the DFG project “GRACEFUL17: Global Governance, Local Dynamics.
Transnational Regimes of Grace in the Roman Dataria Apostolica (17th Century).”

2022 – 2023 | Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Project “Magnetic Margins: A Database of Reader Annotations in Early Modern Works on Magnetism” within the SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung”

2019 – 2022 | Postdoctoral researcher, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (Max Planck Institute for Art History). Project “Diagrams in Early Modern Science: the Case of Magnetism” within the Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions”

2014 – 2019 | Doctorate in the History of Science, Technical University of Berlin. Dissertation: “Magnes. Der Magnetstein und der Magnetismus in den Wissenschaften der Frühen Neuzeit” (with distinction: summa cum laude)