LebensWissen

Details zur Person

Dr.
Andrea
Loettgers

1995 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Göttingen

1996--1999 University of Göttingen, Institute for the History of Science.     

9/2001--8/2002 California Institute of Technology Huntington Instructor in History at theDivision of Humanities and Social Sciences.

9/2002--8/2005 ETH Zurich, Institute for the History of Technology. Research Grantfrom the Swiss National Science Foundation.Historical and Epistemological Investigation of the Development and Application of Computer Simulations: Neural Networks and Spin-glasses.

7/2005--7/2006 Harvey Mudd College, Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor for Science,Technology, and Society Studies.

8/2006--8/2009 California Institute of Technology, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar in theCenter for Biological Circuit Design.

10/2011-12/2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.Research Project on the Role and Function of Metaphors in Synthetic Biology.

6/2013-5/2016 University of Geneva, Department for the Philosophy of Science.Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Biological Knowledge Through Modeling and Engineering. 

Articles in Scientific Journals (refereed)

 

  1. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (forthcoming, 2014) “Magnets, Spins, and Neurons: The Dissemination of Model Templates Across Disciplines.” The Monist 97(3):280-300.
  2. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (in press, 2014) “Varieties of Noise: Analogical Reasoning in Synthetic Biology.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 48:76-88.
  3. Loettgers, Andrea (2013),“ Metaphors advance scientific research.“ Nature 502: 303.
  4. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (2013) “Synthetic Modeling and the Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond.” Philosophy of Science 80:874-885.
  5. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (2013) “Basic Science Through Engineering: Synthetic Modeling and the Idea of Biology-inspired Engineering.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44: 158-169.
  6. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (2011) “Causal Isolation Robustness Analysis: The Combinatorial Strategy in Synthetic Biology”, Biology and Philosophy 26(5): 773-791.
  7. Loettgers, Andrea (2009) “Synthetic biology and the emergence of a dual meaning of  noise.” Biological Theory, 4: 340.
  8.  Maienschein, Jane, Laublicher, Manfred and Andrea Loettgers (2008) "History of Science Matters for Scientists." ISIS 99 (2): 341-349.
  9. Loettgers, Andrea (2007) "Model organisms, mathematical models, and synthetic models in exploring gene regulating mechanism." Biological Theory, 2: 143-142.
  10. Loettgers, Andrea (2007) “Getting abstract mathematical models in touch with nature.” Science in Context, 20:97:124.
  11. Loettgers, Andrea (2003) ``Samuel Pierpont Langley and his Contributions to the Empirical Basis of Black-Body Radiation,'' Physics in Perspective, 5(3): 262.

Articles in Scientific Edited Volumes (refereed)

 

  1. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (in press, 2014)  “Models as Experimental Objects: Mathematical and Synthetic Modeling in the Study of Genetic Circuits”, in Bas van Fraassen, and Isabelle Peschard (eds.) The Experimental Side of Modeling. University of Chicago Press.
  2. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (2013)  “Synthetic Biology as an    Engineering Science? Analogical Reasoning, Synthetic Modeling, and Integration”, in Hanne Andersen, Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Thomas Uebel, and Gregory Wheeler (eds.) New Challenges to Philosophy of Science. The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, Vol 4. Dordrecht: Springer, 163-177.
  3. Knuuttila, Tarja and Andrea Loettgers (2012)  “The Productive Tension: Mechanisms vs. Templates in Modeling the Phenomena”, in Paul Humphreys and Cyrille Imbert (eds.), Representations, Models, and Simulations. New York: Routledge, 3-24.
  4. Loettgers, Andrea (2003) ``Exploring contents and boundaries of experimental practice in laboratory notebooks: Samuel Pierpont Langley and the mapping of the infra-red region of the solar spectrum,'' In: Holmes, F. L., Rheinberger, H.J., Renn, J. (ed.) Reworking the Bench: Research Notebooks in the History of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 159.

 

Details zum Projekt Liste der Personen

© 2024 LebensWissen |