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Dr. Kim M. Hajek is a Postdoc Research Fellow at TUM's Department of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, affiliated with the Ethical Data Initiative. Her interdisciplinary research examines narrative theory and intellectual history to analyze scientific knowledge production. She holds 1st-class Honours degrees in Physics and French Literature from The University of Queensland and a PhD in History of Science (2016). Previously, she served as a Lecturer (assistant professor) in French at the University of New England, Australia, and held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and the Vossius Center (Amsterdam).
Key research areas include the history of hypnotism in 19th-century France, narrative methodologies in science, and ethical virtues in scholarly conduct. She has co-edited Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800 (CUP, 2022) and contributed to journals like History of Science and Isis. Hajek currently serves on editorial boards for major history of science journals and chairs the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) executive committee. Her work emphasizes international scholarly collaboration and multilingualism.
Teaching expertise spans the history of psychology, medical humanities, and 19th-century French literature. She has received awards including the Vossius Fellowship (2023) and the ESHHS Early Career Award (2014).
