Carsten Reinhardt#
| Membership Number: | 4734 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/creinhardt1/index_english.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - present Professor for Historical Studies of Science, University of Bielefeld
- 2013 - 2016 President and CEO, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
- 2006 - 2007 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 2005 - 2006 Stand-In, Chair for History of Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena
- 2003 - 2005 Associate Professor, History of Science Unit, University of Regensburg
- 1997 - 2003 Assistant Professor, History of Science Unit, University of Regensburg
- 1996 - 1997 Instructor, History of Science Unit, University of Regensburg
- 1995 Research Fellow, Research Center on History and Philosophy of Science, Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- History of industrial research in chemistry
- Transfer and transformation of methods and instruments from physics to chemistry
- Science and society: regulatory regimes
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldina
- 2010/11 Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 2004 Prize for the best habilitation of the University of Regensburg
- 2004 Paul-Bunge-Prize for the History of Scientific Instruments of the Hans R.-Jenemann-Foundation
- 2003 Georg-Uschmann-Award for History of Science conferred by Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
- 2000 ABB Science Award for the co-authored book "Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry"
- 1998 - 1999 Edelstein International Fellowship, Philadelphia, USA, and Jerusalem, Israel
- 1994 Fellowship at the Edelstein Center for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
