OSUN Faculty

Maria Avxentevskaya

Maria Avxentevskaya (Auxent) specializes in the history and philosophy of science, medicine, technology and science communication. She received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 2015 (Distinction). Her research has been supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the Warburg Institute, the Max Planck Society, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Herzog August Bibliothek, and Klassik Stiftung Weimar. She is currently working on the monograph Rhetoric and Persuasion in Early Modern English Science, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. Her publications include Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective, co-edited with Glenn W. Most (Brill, in press, 2025), and Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, co-edited with Katja Krause and Dror Weil (Routledge, 2022). She has taught at Bard College Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the University of Sydney. Her science journalism pieces have been republished online by The Independent and Scientific American.