Cornelius Borck is a historian of science and medicine and director of the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies of the University of Lübeck, Germany. Before coming to Lübeck, he was Karl-Schädler-Research Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, directed the research group “Writing Life, Media Technologies and the History of the Life Sciences 1800-1900” in the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and held a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and Language of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal. His research topics include mind, brain and self in the age of visualization ; the epistemology of experimentation in art, science, and media ; sensory prostheses and human-machine relations between artistic avant-garde and technoscience.