Dagmar Schäfer
The University of Oxford | 2018-Present
Professor Dagmar Schäfer is Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Among other current positions, she holds guest Professorships at Tianjin University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has previously been Head of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Manchester and Principal Investigator at the British Inter-University Center for Chinese Studies. Schäfer’s research focuses on the history and sociology of technology in China. Her book The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth Century China was awarded the Joseph Levenson prize in 2013. Schäfer was a 2020 recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious award of the German Research Foundation (DFB).
Discipline
Cognitive NeuroscienceArea of Research
Neuroplasticity and Learning
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