Hi, I’m Phillip! – a science studies scholar and media sociologist with a keen interest in the history of scientific communication. My current research is particularly concerned with the social and cultural consequences of employing media technologies for organizing and communicating knowledge.

My first book traced the conceptual and institutional genealogy of biomedical disciplinarity from nineteenth-century Germany to the postwar United States using a conceptual history approach. Preprint Culture will be my second monograph. I’m at the moment also editing a volume with colleagues called Making Media Futures. Machine Visions and Technological Imagination, to appear with Routledge. It examines the entanglement of future visions and imaginaries with the media technologies through which they are propagated.

I’m a native of Cologne and spent part of my childhood in Ft. Worth, Texas. As a teen, I moved to the beautiful city of Dresden in former East Germany, where I completed my high school education and graduated from the TU Dresden with an MA in Political Science and History. I received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bonn. After appointments at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the University of Bonn, and a fellowship at the at the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche in Weimar, I’m currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Käte Hamburger Center: Culture of Research (c:o/re), RWTH Aachen University, Germany. I live in Aachen with my wife and two daughters.