Stamatina Mastorakou

Stamatina Mastorakou is leading the research group “Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is a historian of science working on the history of astral knowledge and ts material culture. Having earned her PhD in Hellenistic astronomy from Imperial College, London, she has taught and conducted research in Athens, London, New York, and Zurich. She specializes on Aratus’ Phaenomena and her current work focuses on how ancient astronomical knowledge was intricately shaped through poetry, art, and politics.