Gabriele Gramelsberger Former Senior Fellow

Gabriele Gramelsberger
April - August 2015

Vita

Gabriele Gramelsberger is a research fellow at the DFG institute of advanced studies “mecs media cultures of computer simulation” at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Having studied philosophy, political science and psychology at Universität Augsburg from 1993 to 1996, as well as in Maastricht, she gained her PhD in 2001 with a dissertation entitled “Semiotik und Simulation: Fortführung der Schrift ins Dynamische“, supervised by Sybille Krämer at Freie Universität Berlin. From 2002 to 2007, Gramelsberger was associated member of the BMBF-initiative “Science Policy Studies”. In 2008, she was a research fellow at the Max Planck In-stitut für Meteorologie in Hamburg. She has been principal investigator of the BMBF research project “Computer-based Simulation – New Tools of Knowledge Production” and of the BMBF conjoint research group “Embodied Information: ‘Life-like’ Algorithms & Cellular ‘Machines’”, both at Freie Universität Berlin. Moreover, Gramelsberger directed the DFG research network “Atmosphere & Algorithms”. From 2012 to 2014, Gabriele Gramelsberger was part of the chair of aesthetics at Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln. Currently she is working on her habilitation thesis in philosophy named “Operative Epistemologie. Begriff-stheoretische Analyse der Erkenntnis- und Formkraft der Mathematik“ at Technische Univer-sität Darmstadt.

Dated from 2015

Fields of research

Philosophy of technology; cultural impacts of computer-based simulation; climate research; cell biology; philosophy of applied mathematics.

Publications

Monographs

Computerexperimente. Zum Wandel der Wissenschaft im Zeitalter des Computers. Bielefeld: Transcript 2010.

Edited books

with Matthias Heymann, Martin Mahony: Cultures of Prediction. Forthcoming 2015.
with Tarja Knuuttila, Axel Gelfert: Philosophical Perspectives on Synthetic Biology (=Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44/2, 2013).
with Peter Bexte, Werner Kogge: Synthesis. Zur Konjunktur eines philosophischen Begriffs in Wissenschaft und Technik. Bielefeld: Transcript 2013.
From Science to Computational Sciences. Studies in the History of Computing and its Influence on Today's Sciences. Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes 2011.
with Johann Feichter: Climate Change and Policy. The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty. Heidelberg/ Berlin/ New York: Springer 2011.

Articles

“Mathematical Images of Planet Earth”. In: Solvejg Nitzke (ed.): Imaging Earth. Forthcoming 2015.
“Schrift auf den Punkt gebracht - Extrapolation, Rekursion, Simulation”. In: Eva Can-cik-Kirschbaum, Sybille Krämer, Rainer Totzke (eds.): Schriftbildlichkeit. Wahrnehmbarkeit, Materialität und Operativität von Notationen. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 2012, pp. 389-400.
“Epistemische Praktiken des Forschens im Zeitalter des Computers”. In: Elke Bippus (ed.): Kunst des Forschens. Praxis eines ästhetischen Denkens. Berlin: Transcript 2009, pp. 73-90.
“‘Die präzise elektronische Phantasie der Automatenhirne’. Eine Analyse der Logik und Epistemik simulierter Weltbilder”. In: Martina Hessler, Dieter Mersch (eds.): Logik des Bildlichen. Zur Kritik der ikonischen Vernunft. Berlin: Transcript 2009, pp. 73-90.
“Story Telling with Code - Archaeology of Climate Modelling”. In: TeamEthno-online, 2. Lancaster: University of Lancaster 2006, pp. 77-84.