Annette Imhausen
Annette Imhausen is professor of the history of science at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is the author of Egyptian Algorithms.
Professor Imhausen was born in 1970 in Rüsselsheim, Germany and after high school, first studied mathematics, chemistry and Egyptology at the University of Mainz.
Graduated in 1996 (first state examination), then studied Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Free University of Berlin and obtained PhD in the history of mathematics in 2000.
Professor was Imhausen was awarded Research stays in Cambridge, Mass. (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, 2000-2002) and Cambridge, England (Trinity Hall College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 2002-2006).
She was firs appointed to the University of Mainz as a junior professor in the history of mathematics in 2006 and since January 2009 professor for the history of science in the premodern world at the Department of History.
Professor Imhausen is a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Formation of Normative Orders" at the University of Frankfurt.
Source: University of Frankfurt
