Academic career

Prof. Dr. phil. Heiko Stoff

July 7, 2021

Extraordinary professorship

May 26, 2016

Transfer of habilitation to the MHH (venia legendi in medical history) with the inaugural lecture "Das 'Hannover-Modell'. On the prehistory of medical reform universities around 1960"

Since October 1, 2014

Research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School

April 1, 2012 to September 30, 2014

Deputy Professor of History of Science and Technology, Department of History, TU Braunschweig
Summer semester 2013 and winter semester 2013/14: Managing Director of the Department of History at TU Braunschweig
Summer semester 2013 to summer semester 2014: Member of the Culture of the Technical-Scientific World (KTW) study program committee at TU Braunschweig

March 1 to March 31, 2012

Visiting researcher at the DK-plus program "Natural Sciences in Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Context" at the University of Vienna

January 21, 2011 and May 24, 2011

Completion of the habilitation procedure at the TU Braunschweig for the Venia Legendi in History of Science (Faculty of Life Sciences) with the scientific lecture "Biopolitics: Still a useful analytical concept in the history of science?" held on January 21, 2011. Official recognition of the habilitation with the inaugural lecture "Mikro und Makro. On the methodology of the history of science". External reviewers of the habilitation thesis: Jakob Tanner and Carsten Reinhardt

October 1, 2008 - December 31, 2011

Research associate at the TU Braunschweig, Department of History of Natural Sciences with a focus on the history of pharmacy with the DFG-funded research project "Fremdstoffe. A history of the risk politics of precarious substances and the genesis of the critical consumer in the 1950s and 1960s"

October 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010

Academic guest at the Institute for the History of Technology at ETH Zurich

December 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008

Final version of the habilitation thesis "Wirkstoffe. Regulators of the power train. A history of the institutionalization, standardization, activation and precarization of hormones, vitamins and enzymes, 1920-1970"

September 1, 2004 - November 30, 2007

Research associate at the TU Braunschweig, Department of the History of Natural Sciences with a focus on the history of pharmacy as part of the DFG Research Group on the History of the DFG, 1920-1970 with the research project "Enzymes, Hormones, Vitamins. A history of active substances in the context of DFG-funded projects, 1920-1970"

March 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004

PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department III, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger)

July 1, 2002 - February 29, 2004

PostDoc at the Presidential Commission "History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism" of the Max Planck Society, Berlin. Areas of work: "Adolf Butenandt as a science politician in the post-war period" and "Wilhelm Eitel and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research".

January 9, 2002

Completion of the doctoral procedure with the overall grade "summa cum laude"

May 2000

Two-week research stay at the "Academy of Medicine" in New York

October 1998 to September 2001

Doctoral thesis on "The improvement of man. Artificial and natural rejuvenation, 1889-1936" at the Department of History of the University of Hamburg. Supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation from October 1, 1998 to September 30, 2001. The dissertation was supervised by Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat.

April 1986 - July 1996

Studied history (second major: German language and literature) at the University of Hamburg. On July 18, 1996 he received the academic degree of "Magister Artium" with the overall grade "very good" (Master's thesis: "Sexual Science and Eugenics. The Congresses of the World League for Sexual Reform, 1921-1932"). Numerous cultural-political activities during his studies (recorded in: Heiko Stoff, "Vom Spaßhaben und Spaßverderben. Repolitisierung und Rekulturalisierung", in: links. Sozialistische Zeitung 306 (1995), pp. 23-25)