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Dr. Paulina Gennermann
Research Assistant
paulina.gennermann@uni-marburg.de
Research Interests
- History of Flavours and Fragrances
- History of Smell and Taste
- History and Development of Psychopharmacology
- Interrelations and entanglements of science-economics-society
- Naturalness and Normality
- Science in Global and Colonial PerspectivesCurriculum Vitae
Education
2019-2023 PhD Bielefeld University, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
2016-2019 Master of Arts, Bielefeld University, “History, Economics, and Philosophy of Science”
2012-2016 Bachelor of Arts/Licence, Bielefeld University/Université Paris Diderot, History and Biology
Awards and Scholarships
Bettina-Haupt-Förderpreis für Geschichte der Chemie 2024
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), Research Award 2023, 1000£
Commission on the History of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Reisestipendium für die
13ICHC, Vilnius (23.-27.05.2023)
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Promotionsstipendium (09.2020-12.2022)
Bielefelder Nachwuchsfonds, Sach- und Reisemittel (2021-2022)
Memberships
Fellow at Young ZiF, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld
Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik
(GWMT)
German Chemical Society (GDCh), Section for the History of Chemistry
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SOS Bielefeld)
Publications
„Becoming Natural: The Naturalization of Synthetic Flavors in the Twentieth Century and the Introduction of Konsumstoff“, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 46, Nr. 4 (2023): 303-319, DOI: 10.1002/bewi.202300016.
Eine Geschichte mit Geschmack. Die Natur synthetischer Aromastoffe im 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel Vanillin (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023), DOI: 10.1515/9783111190297.Conferences and Presentations
Conference organization “Chemical Connections: Studying Interdisciplinarity through the history of a discipline”, 04.-07.10.2023, ZiF Bielefeld; talk: “Tasting flavors and smelling fragrances” with Carsten Reinhardt
Input in „Conversations on the History of Chemistry 3. Food, toxicity and the life sciences”, 15.06.2023
Presentation at 13ICHC Vilnius: „The naturalization of chemical substances:How synthetic flavors became natural during the 20th century“, 24.05.2023