studied Literature Studies, Philosophy and Sociology at University of Cologne. Since 2008 he is Associate Professor of Media History of Science, Bauhaus-University Weimar. He was a Fellow at Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, with the program art, science and business. From 2008 to 2009 he was Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Center at Harvard University and in 2009 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.