Pfeifer

Katrin Pfeifer is doing her second PhD under Igor Douven. She studied history, pedagogic, and English at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. Katrin Pfeifer is supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (DOC-Grant) since 2009. Presently she is finishing her first PhD in history on the cultural history of severe storms at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna. Areas of competence include the cultural history of natural disasters in general; perception, interpretation, management, and memory of natural disasters in Early Modern Times. Katrin Pfeifer visited The Formal Epistemology Project in April 2010, and visited again from mid June to mid August.