Cécile Stehrenberger is Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at DAAD Costa Rica. Previously she has been professor for historical and comparative studies of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. She received her PhD from the University of Zurich. She worked as a lecturer at the universities of Braunschweig and Erfurt. She was visiting scholar at Princeton IAS, University of Delaware, Drexel University and CSDS in Delhi, India. She was visiting professor at the National University of La Plata (Argentina) and senior fellow at CALAS in Guadalajara.