Prof. Dr. Christoph Sander
Assistant Professor of Digital HumanitiesInformation about the person and research at: https://ch-sander.github.io/
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Office Hours
Appointments by email arrangement
Areas of Research
- 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)
Principal Investigator of CRC 1475 „Metaphors of Religion“
Professor of Center for Religious Studies and CERES Digital Humanities Initiative
Project Leader of Science and Dogma (SCIGMA) and Subproject INF