Lara Keuck leads the history and philosophy of medicine group at Bielefeld University. Her group studies how the boundaries of medical knowledge have transformed over time and the impact these changes have had in establishing and revising key concepts and methods in medical research such as validation, modeling and translating. She has also published widely on the history and philosophy of Alzheimer’s disease research and classification.
After earning her M.Sc. in molecular biomedicine, Keuck pursued a doctoral program in history and philosophy of medicine at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at the École Normale Supérieure, and she completed postdoctoral positions in philosophy and in history at Humboldt University Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She was awarded a prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship from ETH Zurich and was granted an independent Max Planck Research Group.
In 2022, Keuck became the inaugural professor of history and philosophy of medicine at Bielefeld University. She is a founding member of the Bielefeld Institute for Studies of Science and a principal investigator in the TRANSCEND MSCA-Doctoral Network, which she conceptualized together with fellow Branco Weiss alumni Klaus Eyer and Linda Douw.
