Sonja Brentjes
Sonja Brentjes is a historian of science with a focus on translations, maps, institutions, travellers, the sciences and the arts in Islamicate societies (8th–17th centuries), and medieval and early modern Christian Europe. Her recent publications include a volume on astral imagery in Eurasia co-edited with Dagmar Schäfer (NTM, 2020). In 2021 she received the Kenneth O. May Prize for the history of mathematics and in 2022 the Annemarie Schimmel Prize for Islamic Studies.