Thomas Macho was Director of the ifk from 2016 until 2023.
From 1993 until 2016 Thomas Macho was Professor of Cultural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1976, he graduated at Vienna University with a dissertation on the philosophy of music. In 1983, he qualified as lecturer of Philosophy at Klagenfurt University with a thesis on death metaphors. Macho was a co-founder of the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Technology and from 2006 until 2008 Deacon of the Philosophy Faculty III. From 2008 until 2009 he was a fellow at the International College for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus University Weimar; from 2009 until 2011 Director of the Institute for Cultural Science. In the academic year 2013/14, he was a fellow at the International College "Morphomata" at Cologne University.
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