ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

Faculty Member, Research

Director

About

Christoph Holzhey read physics in Oxford University (B.A. 1988) and received his first Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University in 1993 with a dissertation on the entropy and information loss of black holes. At Columbia University, he studied German Literature (M.A. 1994, M.Phil. 1996) and wrote his second dissertation on paradoxical pleasures in aesthetics (Ph.D. 2001). Returning to Germany, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2001-03) and in the project "Mystik und Moderne" at the Universität Siegen (2003-06).

He is the founding director of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Kulturlabor Berlin), which he has directed since 2006. His fields of research include German Literature since the 18th century, pleasure and pain in aesthetics, constructions of identity, gender and sexuality, science and aesthetics, self-organisation and emergence in complex systems.

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