Magdalena Grüner is a scholar of the entanglements of art and ocean science in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In 2024, she submitted her thesis entitled “Abyssal Visions: The Science/Fictions of the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions (1929-1940)” at the University of Hamburg, under the supervision of Prof. Margit Kern and Prof. Rachael DeLue. She was predoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles in 2023-2024 and a Scholar in Residence at the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 2025. She will begin her postdoctoral appointment at the University of Southern California's Society of Fellows in the Humanities in August 2025.
