Dr. phil. Xenia Steinbach

Xenia Steinbach is a historian of science and knowledge with a background in the sociology of science as well as in biology. She worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Sociology of Science at the Technical University of Munich and received her doctorate in the history of science and technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where she was a lecturer at the Institute of History. Her dissertation was published by transcript Verlag under the title: „Hormone und Psyche: Eine Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte psychoendokriner Vorstellungen". She is currently a research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School and a lecturer for Science and Technology Studies at the University College of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Since April 2024 Xenia has been working in project S06 "Bringing Gender into Science – and Back! Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives on Sex Development Research" and is dealing with the history of endocrinological sex development research in the 20th century.