Since 2009, Wolfgang Schäffner, historian of science and media technologies, has been chair of the History and Culture of Knowledge in the Department of the History and Theory of Culture at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has recently been elected as director of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK), Berlin. His investigations focus on material epistemology, architectures of knowledge, history and theory of the analog code and structures, and transatlantic transfer of knowledge and technologies between Europe and Latin America. He is a member of the committee for the Master’s program “Ciencia, Cultura y Tecnología” at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and of “Diseño comunicacional” at the University of Buenos Aires. Since 2005, he has also been director of the Walter Gropius Program at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires. Together with Horst Bredekamp, he is director of the Cluster of Excellence “Image, Knowledge, Gestaltung” at Humboldt University in Berlin.