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Paula Muhr, Postdoctoral Researcher
Paula studied physics, theory of literature, and visual arts in Novi Sad, Belgrade, and Leipzig. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from the University of Fine Arts in Leipzig (2009) and is a practising visual artist. She obtained her PhD in Art and Visual History from Humboldt University Berlin (2021), where she investigated active functions that diverse types of images played in generating medical knowledge of hysteria/functional neurological disorder from the late 19th to early 21st century.
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History of Art and Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2022-2023), where she worked on the DFG project “Browser Art” and conducted her own research into the algorithmic reconstruction of images from sparse data in neuroimaging and black hole imaging.
Paula is an active member of the History Philosophy and Culture (HPC) Working Group of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) Collaboration and, since January 2024, a visiting researcher at the Department for Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin.
Since February 2024, Paula is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich in the Sinergia project “VascX”. Her research focus is on examining knowledge-producing functions of new imaging and visualisation technologies in natural sciences, from neuroscience to medicine to physics.
Fun fact: At the age of 18, I proudly represented Yugoslavia at the Physics Olympiad in Australia!
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