Dear colleagues, 

Please kindly circulate the call below for 2 PhD positions and 1 postdoctoral position in the ERC project “BOTLEG – Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria” within your networks.

Many thanks and all the best,
Jan Baedke

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Call for application: ERC Project BOTLEG – 1 Postdoc and 2 PhD positions in History and Philosophy of Science and Digital Humanities, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany


The Institute of Philosophy I at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, seeks applications for 1 PostDoc position (3 years) and 2 PhD positions (4 years) in the ERC Consolidator Project “BOTLEG – Botanical Legacies: Towards a New History and Philosophy of Virtual Herbaria”, PI Dr. Jan Baedke.

This ERC project aims to help develop more historically informed, theoretically sound, and socially just botanical research by focusing on virtual herbaria—digitized collections of plant specimens. From a perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science, it addresses several historical, epistemic, and conceptual challenges of herbarium research in light of current digitization trends. BOTLEG will collaborate with historians, philosophers, digital humanists, botanists and herbarium experts in Central America, Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands. For more information on the project: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101230109


Details:

1x Postdoc in History of Science or Digital Humanities

Information on Call and Application page for PostDoc position.

2x PhDs in Philosophy of Biology or History of Biology

Information on Call and Application page for PhD positions.

Deadline of all Applications: 25^th May 2026

For any further inquiries please contact jan.baedke@rub.de.

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Jan Baedke
Ruhr University Bochum
Department of Philosophy I
Universitätsstrasse 150
D-44801 Bochum

Tel.: ++49-234-32-24727
Email: Jan.Baedke@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Internet: www.pe.rub.de/philosophie/i/wtwg/index.html.de
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