Lara Keuck

• Professor for History and Philosophy of Medicine, Bielefeld University, Germany, 2022-present
• Research Group Leader, Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, 2021-present
• Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Department of History at Princeton University, February 2016
• Research Scholar at the Department of History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2015-2021
• Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 2013-15
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of Humboldt University Berlin, 2012-13
• Visiting Scholar at the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 2011
• PhD in History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, under a German-French doctoral program with the Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, 2008-12
• Diplom (equivalent to M.Sc) in Molecular Biomedicine, University of Bonn, with research stays at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 2003-08

The evaluation of the model role of Alzheimer’s disease, its long history and many re-phrasings are at the heart of Dr. Lara Keuck’s research project at the intersection of history and the philosophy of biomedicine and psychiatry. She examines how psychiatrists, neurologists and biomedical researchers have framed Alzheimer’s disease—from its first description until today—not only as a specific illness, but also as an exemplar for reasoning about general theories of mental disorder. Against this backdrop, Dr. Keuck contextualizes the development of current biomedical models of Alzheimer’s disease, and brings together historical, philosophical and scientific readings of what it has meant to know something about and learn something from a disease.

• Finalist in the Prix Jeunes Chercheurs, Société de Philosophie des Sciences, 2014
• Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry, German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2012
• Young Researcher at the 61st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, sponsored by the Hertie Foundation, 2011
• Fellow of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin, a student program of the German National Academic Foundation, the Hertie Foundation, the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, 2006-07
• Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation, 2003-08