Address: Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Tel: +49-30-22667151

E-mail: dschaefer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Academic Positions:

Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for the History 07/2019–of Science, Berlin

Honorary Professor, History of Science and Technology, 07/2015– Technische Universität Berlin

Director, Department III, Max Planck Institute for the 04/2013–History of Science, Berlin 

Head of Department of East Asian Studies, 01/2012–07/2013University of Manchester

Professor and Chair of Chinese Studies and History of 09/2011–07/2015 Technology, School for Arts and Languages, University of Manchester

Director, Confucius Institute Manchester 08/2011–07/2013

Director, Independent Research Group "Concepts and 05/2006–08/2011

Modalities: Practical Knowledge Transmission" (China, 10th–18th century), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, 04/2005–08/2005, University of Würzburg

Professional Positions:

Guest Professor, Tianjin University 2018–2021

Guest Professor, School of History and Culture of Science, 2016–2017 Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Principal Investigator in joint research project cooperation between the 2013–2015

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and the Palace Museum (PM) in Beijing, China 

Principal Investigator, British Inter-University Centre for Chinese Studies 2012–2013

Research Director of the Division for Language-Based Area Studies 2012–08/2013

Principal Investigator in joint research project cooperation between the 12/2007–2011

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and the Palace Museum (PM) in Beijing, China 

Supervisor of Partner Group of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) 09/2007–08/2012

and the Max Planck Society (MPG) at the Institute of the 

History of Natural Science (IHNS), Beijing, China 

Editorial Positions:

Editor in Chief, Transfers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies 2018–2019

Guest Editor, Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast 2017–

Asian Studies, special issue History of Science and Technology across the Silk Roads, Leiden: Brill 

Series Editor (with Benjamin Elman and Kim-Yunk Sik), 2015–Science and Religion in East Asia, 

Editorial Board Member Positions:

Senior Advisory Board, Journal for East Asian Science, 2019–2021

Technology, Medicine (EASTM), Leiden: Brill

Steering Committee, China Biographical Database (CBDB) at Harvard 2017–

Editorial Board, Ambix 2017–

Editorial Board, Osiris 2016–

Editorial Board, Transversal: International Journal 2016–

for the Historiography of Science International Committee, Artefacts 2014–

Series Editorial Board, Edition Open Access (MPIWG) 2013–