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Leander Diener holds a master’s degree in German studies and history from the University of Zurich and a master’s degree in history of science, technology, and medicine from King’s College London. In 2021, he completed his PhD on the history of neurophysiology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the University of Zurich. Since the summer of 2023, he has been a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. His project investigates the history of geologic time in glaciology and geology. This research project is part of the working group “Time Scales: Historicizing Deep Time,” led by Sophia Roosth.
RCC Research Project: Bodies in Environments: The History of Knowledge of a Precarious Relationship
Selected Publications:
- The Jungfraujoch: A History of the High Alpine Research Station 1922–1952. [Das Jungfraujoch: Eine Geschichte der Hochalpinen Forschungsstation 1922–1952.] Zürich: Hier und Jetzt, 2022.
- “Naturvergessenheit. Remembering Humanity’s Lost Wholeness in the Eighteenth Century.” [Naturvergessenheit. Erinnerung an die verlorene Ganzheit des Menschen im 18. Jahrhundert.] Body Politics – Zeitschrift für Körpergeschichte 10, no. 14 (2022): 38–56. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.57439.
- “COVID-19 and Its Environment: From a History of Human Medicine Towards an Ecological History of Medicine?” [COVID-19 und seine Umwelt: Von einer Geschichte der Humanmedizin zu einer ökologischen Medizingeschichte?] NTM 29, no. 2 (2021): 203–11. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00048-021-00299-3.