People


The international team of METEΩΡΑ scholars come from various disciplines ranging mostly from History of Art, Philosophy (History), History of Literature (Ancient | Medieval | Early Modern), Meteorology and the History of Science.

Originally based at Trier University (Germany) our network is becoming more international and the group is constantly growing.

This site provides you with information about currently involved scholars – the core team, our permanent guests as well as METEΩΡΑ’s international network.

Team

Ulrike Gehring

Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Nature-Art-Science
  • Dutch marine art of the 16th and 17th century
  • Sea manuals around 1600 in France and the Netherlands

Further information:

University website | Academia.edu | Project Output | Contact


Andreas Lammer

Philosophy | Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Arabic Philosophy
  • History of Natural Philosophy and Science
  • Graeco-Syriac-Arabic-Latin Transmission of Knowledge

Further information:

University Website | Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Jannik Eikmeier

Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Art and Cartography
  • British and Dutch Marine Painting
  • History of Knowledge 

Further information:

Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Dorothee Fischer

Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Human-Animal Relations
  • Natural Collections of the 18th Century
  • Interplay of Nature, Art and Science

Further information:

University Website | Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Colin Murtha

Philosophy | Trier University, Germany

  • Islamic Philosophy
  • Medieval Meteorology
  • Medieval Islamic Value Theory 

Further information:

University Website | Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Diego De Brasi

Classical Philology | Trier University, Germany

  • Philosophical literature of the classical period
  • Jewish-Hellenistic literature
  • Imperial and Late Antique Biology and Anthropology

Further information:

University Website | Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Annika Leuschner

English Language, Literature and Culture & Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Dutch Marine Art of the 16th and 17th century
  • Renaissance Natural Philosophy

Further information:

Contact


Sophie Lindner

Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Dutch Marine Paintings and Travel Journals of the 16th and 17th Century
  • British Marine Paintings of the 19th Century

Further information:

Contact

Permanent Guests

Pascal Arnaud

Ancient Studies | Lyon, France

  • Ancient and Medieval Geography
  • Ancient Maritime History
  • Ancient Philology
  • Greek and Latin Epigraphy and Papyrology

Further information:

CV | Academia.edu | Research Output | Contact


Franz Ossing

Meteorology, Germany

  • Science communication
  • Science and Meteorology in arts
  • Photography

Further information:

Website | CV | Contact


Christine Göttler

Art History | Bern, Switzerland

  • Maritime imaginaries 
  • Elemental forces
  • Visual narratives of (biblical) disasters

Further information:

Website | Academia.edu | Contact


Larissa Wesp

Art History | Trier University, Germany

  • Modern and Contemporary Art
  • 20th Century Painting and Art Theory
  • Light Art
  • Museum and Exhibition Studies

Further information:

University Website | Linkedin | Research Output | Contact

International Network

Alphabetical register of guests and speakers since 2019 as well as permanently connected researchers:

Hannah Baader (Florenz)
Gerlinde de Beer (Hamburg)
Laura Borghetti (Mainz)
Stephan Brakensiek (Trier)
Urs Büttner (Düsseldorf)
Marilina Cesario (Belfast)
Boris Dunsch (Marburg)
Robert Felfe (Graz)
Rebekah Higgitt (Edinburgh)
Anne Lawrence-Mathers (Reading)
Karin Leonhard (Konstanz)
Stéphanie Mailleur-Aldbiyat (Southampton)
Craig Martin (Venice)
Robert Mayhew (Seton Hall, NJ)
Lena Moser (Trier)
Marlise Rijks (Leiden)
Christian Rollinger (Trier)
Leah D. Rotsia (Munich)
Pablo Schneider (Hamburg)
Margaret Schotte (Toronto)
Robbert Striekwold (Leiden)
Malcom Wilson (Oregon)
Thomas Wozniak (Tübingen)
Claus Zittel (Stuttgard | Venice)