Curriculum Vitae

Harald Kümmerle, M.A., M.Sc.
October 2006 –August 2011

Studies of Mathematics (Minor subject: computerscience) at the Technical University of MunichFebruary 2007

Admittance into the German Academic ScholarshipFoundationFebruary 2007 –April 2007

Internship at Daisho-Blacksmith GmbH (as softwaredeveloper)

November 2008

Admittance into the Max Weber Programm Bavaria

October 2009

Completion of the elite course "TopMath" with the title
B.Sc. Topic of the Bachelor's thesis: "On the number ofdistinct prime divisors of polynomial sequences"

August 2011

Graduation from Technical University of Munich withthe title M.Sc. Topic of the Master's thesis: "The Hasse
bound for elliptic curves"

September 2011 –August 2013

Attendance at the German-Japanese Elite Exchange
Program of the German Academic ScholarshipFoundation which includes the concurrent courses"Intercultural Japanese Studies" (at Martin LutherUniversity Halle-Wittenberg) and "Japanese as a foreign
language" (at Keio University Tokyo)

August 2013

Completion of the German-Japanese Elite Exchange
Program, being bestowed two M.A. grades

September 2013 –November 2013

Visiting Junior Research Fellow at the Keio UniversityTokyoOctober 2013

Enrolment to the Doctoral course (Japanese Studies)"Sprachen – Texte – Gesellschaften" (Languages –Texts – Societies) at Martin Luther University HalleWittenberg. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Oberländer
(MPA, Harvard)

December 2013 –March 2014

Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science
Studies at the German National Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina in Halle

January 2014 –March 2014

Research Fellow at the Department of Political Scienceand Japanese Studies of the Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg

April 2014 –Dissertation scholarship awarded by the German

March 2015

Academic Scholarship Foundation

April 2014 –March 2015

Visiting Junior Research Fellow at the Keio University
Tokyo, being supported by a dissertation scholarshipfrom the German Academic Exchange ServiceApril 2015 –July 2018

Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science
Studies at the German National Academy of Sciences
Leopoldina in Halle

May 2015 –April 2017

Dissertation scholarship awarded by the German
Academic Scholarship Foundation

January 2018 –July 2018

Participation in the development of tools for theexploration of scholarly networks in the project"Wissenschaft im Pfarrhaus" (Science in the vicarage) at
the Centre for Science Studies at the German National
Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle

July 2018

Submission of the dissertation thesis "Die
Institutionalisierung der Mathematik als Wissenschaft
im Japan der Meiji- und Taishō-Zeit" (Theinstitutionalization of mathematics as a science in Meijiand Taishō-era Japan)

September 2018

Research stay in Tokyo for conducting a survey ofmathematics-related journals in prewar Japan, funded bythe CNRS project "Cirmath" (circulationsmathématiques)November 2018 –December 2018

Research Fellow at the Department of Political Scienceand Japanese Studies of the Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg

January 2019

Defense of the dissertation thesis "Die
Institutionalisierung der Mathematik als Wissenschaft
im Japan der Meiji- und Taishō-Zeit" (Theinstitutionalization of mathematics as a science in Meijiand Taishō-era Japan). Overall grade: summa cum laude(best grade)

March 2019 –December 2019

Research Fellow at the Department of Political Scienceand Japanese Studies of the Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg

April 2019 –September 2019

Postdoctoral Scholarship for research at the German
Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo

Since January 2020

Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute forJapanese Studies in Tokyo

Language proficiency

GermanMother tongue

EnglishJapanese
FrenchTeaching

Fluent written and spoken
Fluent written and spoken
Good reading knowledge- Winter semester 2010/11: Exercises to the lecture"Elliptische Funktionen und Elliptische Kurven"(Elliptic functions and elliptic curves) (Ludwig
Maximilian University of Munich, Department ofMathematics)- Winter semester 2015/16: Tutor for the M.A. Seminary"Digitales Japan" (Digital Japan) (MLU HalleWittenberg, Department of Political Science andJapanese Studies)- Winter semester 2016/17: B.A. Seminary "Die
Wissenschaftsgeschichte Japans von der Edo-Zeit bis
zum Zweiten Weltkrieg" (The history of science inJapan from the Edo era until the Second World War);
Tutor for the M.A. Seminary "Digitales Japan" (DigitalJapan) (MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Department of PoliticalScience and Japanese Studies)- Summer semester 2018: Exercises on the topic"Hilfsmittel und Arbeitstechniken der Japanologie"(Tools and working techniques in Japenese Studies)(MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Political
Science and Japanese Studies)

Research interests

History of mathematics, discourse on the digitaltransformation, digital humanities

Awards- Johannes Zilkens Dissertation Prize 2020 of theGerman Academic Scholarship FoundationMemberships- Gesellschaft für Japanforschung (Society for JapaneseStudies (in German-speaking regions))- Nihon Sūgakushi Gakkai (Japanese Society for theHistory of Mathematics)- Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai (Japanese Society for theHistory of Science)- Nihon Kagaku Gijutsu Shakai Ron Gakkai (JapaneseSociety for the Science and Technology Studies)