Daniela Helbig

Daniela Helbig is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney's School for History and Philosophy of Science and a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). Her work bridges the history of technology and intellectual history, focusing on material text production practices, textual form, and science in the Middle East.

• Education: Physics (Berlin, Paris), PhD in History of Science (Harvard, 2012)
• Current Affiliation: University of Sydney, MPIWG

Her research explores intersections between material culture and scientific knowledge, including projects on digital archives (e.g., Kant's Opus postumum), aerial archaeology in the Middle East, and the life of technical physicist Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg. She engages with the Digital Humanities Team at MPIWG to develop computational tools for historical research.

Recent publications reflect her interests in:

• Materiality of texts and digital preservation
• Gender and science in 20th-century contexts
• Historical epistemology of technology
• Trans-regional scientific networks