Team

Managing and Artistic Director Ghent University Museum and Botanical Garden. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Collections manager at the Jardin des sciences at the University of Strasbourg since 2004. Coordinator of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Co-Speaker of the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Conservator of the diffuse scientific-technological heritage and the Museum of Machines ‘Enrico Bernardi' at the University of Padua. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Coordinator at the Academic Heritage Foundation (Stichting Academisch Erfgoed - SAE). Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Cultural Project Manager at the Jardin des sciences at the University of Strasbourg since 2015. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Research Associate & Co-Speaker Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany, Centre for Cultural Technology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Curator of the Museum of the History of Physics at the University of Padua. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Biologist, conservator, and curator of the Zoology collection at the Ghent University Museum. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects. For Dominick, teaching without objects is impossible.

Collection manager at Ghent University Museum (GUM). Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Hands-on researcher of teaching and learning with objects at Things That Talk. Lead researcher in the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Dr Sara Doll is head of the collection at the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Heidelberg University. Her dissertation focussed on teaching materials from the Heidelberg anatomy department. She regularly uses objects from the collection in her courses.

Nina El Laban-Devauton works at the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and recounts history through objects at the DDR Museum, Berlin. She is becoming a primary school teacher.

Collections manager at the Jardin des sciences at the University of Strasbourg since 2004. Coordinator of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Co-Speaker of the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Conservator of the diffuse scientific-technological heritage and the Museum of Machines ‘Enrico Bernardi' at the University of Padua. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Angela Newton is a Learning Advisor working with academic staff and students in the areas of academic literacies, particularly critical thinking, active listening and object-based learning.

Founder of Things That Talk. Editor of object-based stories; gives workshops to students, teachers, and curators.

Dr Frank Steinheimer is the head of the natural sciences collections of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (ZNS) and assembled in 2017 most historic teaching models of the natural sciences departments in an own collection room, now open for teaching as well as scientific and art projects.

Curator of the Museum of the History of Physics at the University of Padua. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Dr Kerrin von Engelhardt (née Klinger) studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and Cultural History/Folklore Studies, Art History and Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. She received her doctorate in the history of natural sciences with a dissertation on mathematics education around 1800.

Designer of object based workshops for Things That Talk.

Lisa Maria Wirzel studied Art History and Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna.

Researcher at the University of Padua. Lead researcher in the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Dr Andreas Benz holds a doctorate in economic and social history and has been a research associate at the Institute of Industrial Archaeology, History of Science and Technology (Institut für Industriearchäologie, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte) and Head of the Custody Department at TU Bergakademie Freiberg since April 2016.

Dr Bernadette Biedermann studied Art History and Cultural Management at the University of Graz, specialising in General Museology. She is currently deputy director of the University Museums of the University of Graz, co-editor of the journal “Curiositas. Journal of Museology and Museological Source Studies” and Chair of the Heritage Working Group within the Coimbra Group Universities. Her research interests include: general museology, museum presentation forms, university collections and material and immaterial cultural heritage within universities.

Thomas Campbell is an Associate Professor in Social Theory, his interest in object-based learning develops from his archival research.

Managing and Artistic Director Ghent University Museum and Botanical Garden. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Dr Carolin Krämer was a research assistant at the Institute for Material Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 2012 to 2022. She studied Art History, History and Museum Studies in Halle (Saale) and Oldenburg and currently works as a scientific advisor for education and mediation at the LWL Museum Glashütte Gernheim.

Coordinator at the Academic Heritage Foundation (Stichting Academisch Erfgoed - SAE). Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Cultural Project Manager at the Jardin des sciences at the University of Strasbourg since 2015. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Franziska Ritter ist Szenografin und Musikerin. Sie studierte Architektur an der TU Berlin, sowie im Auslandsstudium Fotografie und Film an der University of North London. Sie war von 2008 bis 2014 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und ist seitdem Koordinatorin und Dozentin des Masterstudiengangs Bühnenbild_Szenischer Raum der TU Berlin.

From April 2011 to March 2019, Alissa Theiß was a research assistant at the Institute for Medieval German Philology at the Philipps University of Marburg. Since April 2019 she has been Collection Officer at the Justus Liebig University Giessen.

Research Associate & Co-Speaker Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany, Centre for Cultural Technology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Biologist, conservator, and curator of the Zoology collection at the Ghent University Museum. Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects. For Dominick, teaching without objects is impossible.

Collection manager at Ghent University Museum (GUM). Member of the Erasmus+ project Teaching with Objects.

Dr Maria Will is a lecturer at the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. After studying biology in Jena and Leipzig, she completed her doctorate in Mainz and completed a scientific voluntary service. In addition to teaching botany, she is involved in the certificate programme Custodial Practice at University Collections and deals with the indexing of collections.