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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 Perspectives

  • Curriculum 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