Jan Müggenburg

Jan Müggenburg is currently working as a pre-doctoral research assistant at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Leuphana University in Lueneburg, writing his doctoral thesis on Heinz von Foersters Biological Computer Laboratory. Between 1998 and 2005 he studied media studies, philosophy and British cultural studies at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Germany) and the Edith Cowan University in Perth (Australia). From 2006 to 2010 Jan was a member of the graduate program ›The Sciences in Historical Context‹ and a pre-doctoral assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Jan was a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign, IL and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.