Marcus B. Carrier is a postdoctoral researcher and publications coordinator at c:o/re. He studied history and chemistry (B.A., 2013) as well as History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (M.A., 2016), and he received his PhD from Bielefeld University in 2022. His research so far has focused on the history of chemistry, the history of expertise, and the history of experimental practices in science. For his dissertation, he worked on the history of forensic toxicology and chemical expertise in poisoning trials in 19th-century Germany and France. Since 2022, he has been working on the history of computer simulations and the relationship between experiment and simulation in chemistry since the 1970s. In 2022–2023, he was funded as a postdoc by the Bielefeld Young Researchers’ Fund. In 2022, he was also a short-term fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, USA. And before joining the team at c:o/re, he was one of our Junior Fellows in 2023–2024.
Selected Publications
Carrier, Marcus B. 2023. Der Wert von Methoden: Forensische Toxikologie des 19. Jahrhunderts im deutsch-französischen Vergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Carrier, Marcus B. 2022. “Presenting Chemical Practice in Court: Forensic Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century German States.” In: Evidence in Action between Science and Society, edited by Sarah Ehlers and Stefan Esselborn, 1st ed., 42–59. New York: Routledge.
Carrier, Marcus B. 2021. The Making of Evident Expertise: Transforming Chemical Analytical Methods into Judicial Evidence. In NTM Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 29(3): 261–84.
Carrier, Marcus B. 2019. “The Value(s) of Methods in the Courtroom: Values for Method Selection in Forensic Toxicology in Germany in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” In: Global Forensic Cultures. Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era, edited by Ian A. Burney and Christopher Hamlin, 37–59. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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