Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director emeritus at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He studied philosophy, linguistics, and biology in Tübingen and Berlin. His academic stations include Berlin, Stanford, Lübeck, and Salzburg. From 1996-2014, he was Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. 2023 he published Split and Splice. A Phenomenology of Experimentation (The University of Chicago Press).