Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm

Head of Group "Gender & Science" Humboldt-University Berlin, Department of History

Kerstin Palm, born 1961, studied biology, philosophy and german language at the Universities of Göttingen and Freiburg. She received her doctorate in biology on the topic of water ecology in 1996; and her habilitation in cultural studies with a scientific-historical thesis on the cultural history of the concept of life in 2009. Since 2013 she is Professor of Gender & Science at the Institute of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her main interest in research focusses on scientific and technical concepts instructed by a gender-theoretical cultural history, gender epistemology, materiality theories (e.g. embodiment theories and plasticity concepts in brain research, biological incorporation of sociality), theories and practices of trans- and interdisciplinarity, gender theory in the curriculum of natural and technical sciences, and gender-theoretically informed biology didactics.