Rana Brentjes

Rana Brentjes is an art historian, a curator, and a historian of contemporary German History. She is currently the Digital Content Curator of the research project "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She co-edited the Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (2023) and co-authored "The scientific environment in Samarkand around Ulugh Beg and the Zij-i Gurgani" in Commentaires du fac-simile du...See more

Rana Brentjes is an art historian, a curator, and a historian of contemporary German History. She is currently the Digital Content Curator of the research project "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She co-edited the Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (2023) and co-authored "The scientific environment in Samarkand around Ulugh Beg and the Zij-i Gurgani" in Commentaires du fac-simile du Livre des étoiles fixes d''Abd al-Raman al-ufi _Manuscrit BnF Arabe 5036 edited by Anna Caiozzo. In her current work she edits and develops the VoH Database, presents its research potential at workshops and conferences, and works on publishing some of those results. See less