- Habilitation in History of Science and Science Studies, 2007, Technical University of Braunschweig.
- Ph.D. in Modern History, 1994, Specialization: History of Science, Technical University of Dresden, Dissertation: "Statistiker und Statistik. Zur Genese der statistischen Disziplin in Deutschland zwischen dem 18. und 20. Jahrhundert" ("Statisticians and Statistics. The Genesis of Statistics as a Discipline in Germany between the 18th and 20th Century").
- 1990–1993 General History, History and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences, Technical University of Dresden.
- Teaching diploma, 1986, Specialization: Mathematics and Physics, University of Leipzig.
- 1982–1986 Mathematics, Physics, Education, Psychology, University of Leipzig.
- Winter 2010/11 Stand-In, Chair for Modern History, Department of History, University of Bremen.
- since April 2010 Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld, Current Project: “Know Thyself!” Visual Health Education with Objects of Knowledge from the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden in the 20th century” (project leader and principal investigator).
- Winter 2009/10 Stand-In, Chair for History of Science, Department of History, Goethe University Frankfurt a. Main.
- Summer 2009 Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Dept. III: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger), Berlin.
- Winter 2008/9 Stand-In, Chair for Historical Studies of Science, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld.
- 2007–Managing Editor of NTM. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Birkhäuser Verlag Basel.
- 2003–2006, 2009/10: Coordinator of the MA "History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Wissenschaftsforschung)" at the University of Bielefeld, a Joint Program of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, the Faculty for Sociology and the Faculty for History, Philosophy and Theology (Department of History and Department of Philosophy).
- 2003–Executive Secretary of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT).
- 2001–2008 Research Scholar, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld, Current Project: Otto Neurath's Science Popularization. From the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics to the International Pictorial Language ISOTYPE, funded by the DFG and directed by Peter Weingart.
- 1999/2000 Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.
- 1997–1999 DFG Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate College "Genese, Strukturen und Folgen von Wissenschaft und Technik", Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld.
- 2–3, 8/1998 Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.
- 4/1998 DAAD-Visiting Lectureship at the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croacia.
- 1998 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the foundation of the International Women University held at the Expo 2000 in Hannover.
- 1996/97 DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, U.K.
- 1996/97 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for a museum exhibition "Der Shejne Yidd. The Beautiful Jew. Jewish Bodies, Culture and Hygiene" Jewish Museum Vienna.
- 1995/96 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Dept. II Lorraine Daston), Berlin.
- 1995 CNRS Associate Researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, La Vilette, Paris.
- 1993/94 Walter Rathenau Postdoctoral Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation, Verbund für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Technical University of Berlin.
- 1990–1993 Fellowship for postgraduate study at the Technical University of Dresden.
- 9/1992 DAAD Language Fellowship in English at the City University of London, U.K.
- 1992 Research Grant from the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden to study the historical relations between population politics and statistics around 1900.
- 9/1991 DAAD Language Fellowship in French at the Université Catholique de Lyon.
- 1986–1990 Teacher of mathematics and physics at the comprehensive School in Wormstedt.
Berit Bethke:
Bodies on Display. Die Ausstellungstätigkeit des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums Dresden in Entwicklungsländern, 1950 bis 1980 (Stipendiatin des Bielefelder Graduiertenkollegs zur Weltgesellschaft, Betreuung gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Bettina Heintz, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld).
Thomas Steller:
„Eine Hochschule für Jedermann“. Das Deutsche Hygiene-Museum Dresden als Akteur nationaler und internationaler Wissenspopularisierung, 1900 bis 1933 (Stipendiat der Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Betreuung gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaften, Philosophie und Theologie, Universität Bielefeld).
Christian Sammer:
Repräsentationen von Krankheit und Gesundheit im deutsch-deutschen Vergleich anhand des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums Dresden und des Deutschen Gesundheitsmuseums/der BZgA, 1946-1991 (Stipendiat des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums Dresden, assoziert im Graduiertenkolleg Wissensgesellschaft und an der Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociologie, Betreuung gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Willibald Steinmetz, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaften, Philosophie und Theologie, Universität Bielefeld).
Anna-Gesa Leuthardt:
"Da werden Weiber zu Hygienen!" Sexualaufklärung im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 1911-1990
- 2007 Society for History of Science (GWG).
- 1993 German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT).
- 1998 Freundeskreis of the DAAD.
- 1999 Society for the Advancement of the Scientific World Conception, Institute Vienna Circle.