About
Andreas Weber is an assistant professor in the
department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STePS). Most of his research and teaching examine
the relationship between
Science, Technology and Culture (=STC) from a long-term and global perspect
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ive.
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Andreas has a special interest in the history of natural history
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and chemistry in insular
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Southeast Asia and Europe. This includes research into how
computational technologies can be used to contextualize and provide access to valuable digitized scientific collections, such as biodiversity heritage archives and collections. My research in the latter field also allows me to reflect upon how the growing use of digital technologies impacts research in the humanities, and more general, our understanding of culture and technology in society.
Andreas is editor of the book series
Emergence of Natural History (ENH), published by Brill publishers, and is associate editor of the international journal
Itinerario. Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions. Itinerario is published by Cambridge University Press.
From September 2020 onwards, Andreas is PhD training coordinator of
WTMC – the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology, and Modern Culture.
Education
Andreas holds a MA degree (2005) and a PhD (2012), both from Leiden University. In 2015-2016, Andreas was a John C. Haas fellow of the
Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Andreas has also obtained a 1. Staatsexamen (=first degree in teacher’s training to teach at German gymnasia) in History and German Language and Literature from the University of Bamberg (2006).
