Participating Faculties and Departments

The faculty of the DK program "The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Contexts" includes participants and associates from the Faculties of Life Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy and Education, as well as the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. For administrative purposes the program is assigned to the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies as part of the research area (Fakultätsschwerpunkt) "History of Science - Cultures of Knowledge – Knowledge Societies", from which many of the thematic and methodical foundations of the program are drawn.

Members of the Faculty (second funding period)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash (Department of History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) - Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Aspelmeyer (Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information, Faculty of Physics)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Kusch (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Education)
 
• Univ.-Prof. DDr. Gerd B. Müller (Department of Theoretical Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences) – Associate Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Nemeth (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Education)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse (Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) – Associate Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Sigmund (Faculty of Mathematics)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedrich Stadler (joint professorship in History and Philosophy of Science - Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Education) – Associate Speaker

Faculty members wish to acknowledge their close co-operation with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Milford, Department of Economics, University of Vienna.

Members of the Faculty (first funding period)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mitchell Ash (Department of History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) - Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Irene Lichtscheidl (Core Facility of Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research, Faculty of Life Sciences)
  
  
• Univ.-Prof. DDr. Gerd B. Müller (Department of Theoretical Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences) – Associate Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Nemeth (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Education)

• Hon.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang L. Reiter (Honorary Professor for History of Science in the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies; The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse (Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) – Associate Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Sigmund (Faculty of Mathematics)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedrich Stadler (joint professorship in History and Philosophy of Science - Department of Contemporary History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Education) – Associate Speaker

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jakob Yngvason (Faculty of Physics; The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics)