Christoph Rosol is research associate at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Working as an intermediary between the two institutions his main activity is in conceptualizing and co-curating the different streams of activities within The Anthropocene Project (2013-14), the project Technosphere (2015-18), and the Anthropocene Curriculum (2013-).

Christoph’s background is in media studies and the history of science and technology. Previously, he was a doctoral fellow at the graduate school “History of Media—Media of History” at Bauhaus University, Weimar, after finishing his MA in cultural studies at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Toronto. His research is concerned with the epistemic foundations and technical means by which atmospheric and climate sciences have become an archetypal computational science, and how data, models, and computer experiments (simulations) are forming an intricate nexus in shaping geoscientific knowledge. His PhD thesis revisits the history of fluid dynamics, early computing, and climate sciences under the guise of Michel Serres’ philosophy of history. Specifically, he is interested in the application of climate models to reconstruct the drivers of rapid paleoclimate events that are comparable to current climatic change.