Dr. Paula Muhr
Institut Kunst- und Baugeschichte
Englerstraße 7
D-76131 Karlsruhe
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Paula Muhr is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for History of Art and Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a visual artist. She studied visual arts, art history, theory of literature, and physics before receiving her PhD in Visual Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin. Her transdisciplinary research is at the intersection of visual studies, image theory, media studies, science and technology studies (STS), and history and philosophy of science. She focuses on examining knowledge-producing functions of new imaging and visualisation technologies in natural sciences, from neuroscience over medicine to physics.