Background
Ute Deichmann was born on December 23, 1951, in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Deichmann graduated from the University of Heidelberg as a Master of Arts in 1975.
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Deichmann earned her doctor's degree from the University of Cologne in 1991.
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Ute Deichmann was born on December 23, 1951, in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Deichmann graduated from the University of Heidelberg as a Master of Arts in 1975. She earned her doctor's degree from the University of Cologne in 1991.
Deichmann's career began in 1975, when she became a schoolteacher. She had held the post till 1987. For almost ten years from 1987, she worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Cologne. Just for a year after that period of time, she was appointed by the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry in Philadelphia as an Edelstein International Fellow in the History of the Chemical Sciences. She was also a research fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997, and worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Cologne.
Deichmann was the founding director of the Jacques Loeb Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University in 2007. Nowadays she serves as an adjunct full professor there and as the director. She has been working as an associate professor at the University of Cologne since 2011.
Additionally, she worked as the head of a working group on the history of modern biology and chemistry in the same department at the University of Cologne. For four years from 2003, she had held a position of a research professor at the Leo-Baeck-Institute in London where, together with Ulrich Charpa, she was the head of the project "Jews in German-Speaking Academia, 19th and 20th centuries".
Deichmann's has been conducting researches on the history and philosophy of modern life sciences.
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