About
Ulf Schmidt is Senior Professor of Modern History at the University of Hamburg, founding-director of the Centre for the Study of Health, Ethics, and Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research interests are in the history of modern medical ethics, warfare, and policy in twentieth-century Europe and the United States. He is especially interested in the history of authoritarian regimes and modern dictatorships.
Schmidt is Principal Investigator of a six-year ERC Synergy Grant on “Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good”.
Research focus
- History of Post-War Europe
- History of Modern Germany, 20th and 21st Centuries
- History of German National Socialism and the Third Reich
- History of East and West Germany
- History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
- History of Global Health Ethics and Human Rights
- History of Human Experimentation
- History of the Cold War
- History of Medical War Crimes
- History of Eugenics
- History of Conflict and Violence
- History of Chemical and Biological Weapons
- History of Propaganda
Awards
- European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant
- Wellcome Trust Seed, Conference, and Project Awards
- Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship Award
- Visiting Fellowship Awards (e.g. Brocher Foundation; Chemical Heritage Foundation; German Historical Institute, Washington)
Memberships
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom
- Member of the Harvard-Sussex Programme on Chemical and Biological Warfare at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (by FCO invitation only)
- Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
- Research Associate of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
