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Sven Widmalm

Sven is professor at the Department of History of Sciences and Ideas, Uppsala University, and was previously professor at the Department for Thematic Research, Unit...

Dora Vargha

Dora is Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. Her first monograph, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic, is...

Geert Somsen

Geert is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He was educated at the Free University, Amsterdam, the University of California,...

Yi-Tang Lin

Yi-Tang has recently finished her PhD dissertation on statistical practices within international health organisations and their implementations in China at the University of Lausanne. She is...

Ian Crawford

Ian Crawford is Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology at Birkbeck. Ian’s main research interests are in the fields of astronomy, planetary science, and the...

Charlotte Bigg

Charlotte is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, and she teaches at the Ecole des Hautes...

Sanjib Bhakta

Sanjib is Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry at Birkbeck, and Head of the ISMB Mycobacteria Research Laboratory, as well as BITE-Professorial Fellow in Medical...

Waqar Zaidi

Waqar is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on the relationship(s) between technology and international relations...

Johanna Conterio

Johanna is Lecturer in International and Modern European History at Flinders University. Her research examines the environmental, medical, social, and cultural history of the Soviet...

Jessica Reinisch

Jessica is Reader in Modern European History at Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.