Dirk Wintergrün

Dr. Dirk Wintergrün is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, currently on leave until February 2028 while serving as Head of the Cross-Sectional Directorate for Digital Transformation and Innovation Management at Klassik Stiftung Weimar. His work bridges digital humanities with network science, focusing on socioepistemic networks to model knowledge formation processes.

• Key research areas: Semantic modeling (ontology development), network analysis (graph-theoretical frameworks), text mining for historical data (OCR-based corpus structuring)
• Collaborative projects: Research Program on the History of the Max Planck Society (GMPG), exoplanet research history (BZML-funded), large-scale digitization initiatives

His recent publications explore computational history methodologies, with a 2023 Journal of Social paper analyzing formal approaches to historical knowledge. Earlier work (2020) reconstructs general relativity's development through collaboration networks in Scientometrics. The 2019 Isis article provides a roadmap for data challenges in historical scholarship.

Dr. Wintergrün actively shapes digital humanities infrastructure through project coordination roles and educational workshops on network analysis (2011-2020), text mining, and digital research tools. He received BMBF funding recognition for socioepistemic network modeling initiatives.

• Notable contributions: Development of socioepistemic network framework
• Key collaborations: Roberto Lalli, Jürgen Jost, Jürgen Renn
• Technical expertise: Graph representation of historical data, quadrupel encoding systems