Kerstin Storm is a Full Professor of Sinology and Director of the Institute for Sinology and East Asian Studies at the University of Münster since October 2022. She is also co-founder and spokesperson of the Asia Center at Faculty 09 of the University of Münster since May 2024. Previously, she served as Head of the BMBF project "Variety and Variability of Indigenous Perceptions of Age and Aging in Chinese Poetry" at the University of Trier from 2020-2022. Her academic career includes positions as Assistant Professor at the University of Münster (2013-2017) and Deputy Professor of Chinese Intellectual History and Confucianism at the University of Trier (2017-2018). 2022: Habilitation in Sinology, University of Trier 2008-2014: PhD in Sinology, University of Münster 1999-2005: MA in Sinology, Political Science, and Economic Policy, University of Münster 2001-2002: Chinese language and cultural studies at National Taiwan Normal University Professor Storm's research focuses on decision-making processes and forms of argumentation in the Tang dynasty (618-907), age and aging in premodern China, traditional Chinese poetry, Chinese legal history, concepts of childhood in premodern China, and narrative forms in premodern Chinese prose. Her work bridges historical, literary, and legal studies of imperial China, with particular attention to social structures, age hierarchies, and narrative techniques in historical documents. Through her leadership in the Cluster of Excellence on Transcultural Entanglement and Disentanglement and the Digital Humanities Research Cloud, she has expanded her research into digital methodologies for analyzing historical Chinese texts. Her scholarly output demonstrates consistent engagement with the intersection of law and literature in Tang dynasty China, with increasing attention to transcultural knowledge transfer in later works. The articles reflect methodological diversity, combining philological analysis of classical texts with comparative historical approaches. Recent publications show growing interest in missionary knowledge transfer in 19th-20th century China, indicating an expansion of her research scope beyond the imperial period. 2012: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2011: Doctoral Scholarship from University of Münster 2001: DAAD Full Scholarship for Chinese language studies at National Taiwan Normal University Professor Storm has supervised doctoral research including Lisa Natascha Kerl's dissertation on missionary knowledge transfer in China. She has received research funding through the BMBF project on indigenous perceptions of age in Chinese poetry (2020-2022) and previously held a Humboldt-JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for research at Kyoto University (2012-2013). Her current research includes leadership of project A3-35 "News from China?" within the Cluster of Excellence. She serves on review panels for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), demonstrating her active role in shaping research funding in her field. As co-founder and spokesperson of the Asia Center at the University of Münster since 2024 and member of the Center for Digital Humanities since 2022, Professor Storm leads interdisciplinary initiatives connecting sinological research with broader area studies and digital methodologies. Her role as chairwoman of the German Association for Chinese Studies (DVCS) since 2024 further demonstrates her leadership in the academic community.
