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Johannes Knolle Editor & Author

Johannes Knolle is Associate Professor for the Theory of Quantum Matter at the Technical University of Munich. His work focuses on unconventional quantum phases of matter. He was awarded the Dissertation Prize in 2015 by the German Physical Society and the Springer Theses Prize in 2015. James Poskett is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick. James' research engages broadly with the global history of science and technology from 1750 to the present day. His first book, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920, was published in 2019. He writes regularly in the popular press and in 2013 was shortlisted for the BBC New Generation Thinker Award.