Annette Imhausen
Historian of Mathematics, Egyptologist


Resume

 
Annette Imhausen

Academic Employment

2007-Associate editor of Historia Mathematica
2006-Juniorprofessorin (assistant professor in the history of mathematics) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
2006-2007Peer reviewer European Science Foundation
2005-Assistant editor of Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopedia of the ancient world (Vol. 8-)
2005-Instructor, supervisions in history of science, (Paper 1,5), Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University (England)
2003-2006Instructor, supervisions in Egyptology (Hieratic, Coptic, Middle Egyptian), Oriental Institute, Cambridge University (England)
2001Conference Organizer (with John Steele and Christopher Walker): Under One Sky - Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East (British Museum, London)
2000-Referee for various journals and publishers (Historia Mathematica, Isis, American Mathematical Monthly, Revue d'Histoire des Mathematiques, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press)
1998-1999Instructor, course in Coptic grammar, department of Egyptology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
1997-2000Teaching Assistant in history of mathematics, department of mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
1994-1996Project Assistant, Pedagogical seminars for the improvement of teaching in mathematics and medicine, Institut für Hochschuldidaktik, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
1993Deutsche Schule der Borromäerinnen /Cairo (Egypt) [German school] practical training (4 weeks)

Fellowships and Affiliations

2006Scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (January-April)
2005-Affiliated Research Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University England)
2002-2005Research Fellow in Egyptology at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (England)
2001-Honorary fellow of the Centre for the History of Mathematical Sciences (Open University), England
2000-2002Postdoctoral Fellowship Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Mass.
2000-2002Visiting fellow Harvard University, Department for History of Science
2000Graduiertenstipendium [Graduate Scholarship] Mainz University
Summer 1999Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin: 2nd International Laboratory for the History of Science: The Material Culture of Calculation

Education

 InstitutionDegree
1999-2000Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (History of Mathematics) 2000 PhD (summa cum laude)
1996-1999Berlin University (Freie Universität) (Egyptology and Assyriology) Seminar Certificates
1992-1996Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (Egyptology) 1996 Erste Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien (university degree required for teaching profession)
1989-1996Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (mathematics and chemistry) 1992 Zwischenprüfung Chemie (intermediate exam in chemistry)
1991 Zwischenprüfung Mathematik (intermediate exam in mathematics)
1980-1989High school1989 High school degree (Abitur)

Graduate Work

1996Staatsexamensarbeit (Master's Thesis): Rechnungen aus dem Niltal - Probleme ägyptischer Mathematik am Beispiel des mathematischen Papyrus Moskau [Calculations from the Nile Valley Problems of Egyptian Mathematics in the Moscow mathematical Papyrus]
Supervisors: David E. Rowe (Mainz University), Stephan J. Seidlmayer (Berlin University)
2000Doctoral Thesis: Antike Algorithmen. Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten [Ancient Algorithms. A Study of Middle Egyptian Mathematical Problem Texts]
Supervisors: David E. Rowe (Mainz University), Jim Ritter (University of Paris)

Foreign Language Proficiency

English (spoken and written)
French (spoken and written)
Latin (A-level)
Classical Greek (Graecum)
Egyptian (Middle and Late Egyptian)
Demotic
Coptic
Akkadian
Sumerian

Prizes and Grants

2001Dissertation prize (Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V. für das Jahr 2000)
2001Grant for the publication of doctoral thesis from the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften


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