On other pages you will find the following information:
- more biographical data (in German)
- a list of courses and lectures I taught (in German)
- a list of my publications
- many articles as full-text (several of them in English)
Short résumé:
- born in 1964 in Montréal/Canada
- studied from 1982 to 1991 at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich/Germany
- M.A. in sinology in 1988
- Dr.rer.nat. (the German version of a Ph.D. in the natural sciences) in history of science in 1991
- 1992‒2000 various jobs as researcher and lecturer, mainly at the Institute for the History of Science, LMU Munich
- since 2006 librarian (microforms, subject cataloging) at the Bavarian State Library in Munich
Current research areas:
- anime (= Japanese animation; comprehensively)
- manga (= Japanese comics; selectively: e.g., manga and medicine)
- animals and the Second World War
- genocides in the 20th century, especially in Rwanda and Cambodia
- intelligence history
- modern Chinese history
- history of science and universities, mostly concerning Germany in the first half of the 20th century
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