Omar W. Nasim is an award-winning Professor of the History of Science at the University of Regensburg, Germany. A specialist in the visual, cultural, and material histories of modern Western science, his research shifts focus from scientific end-products to the meticulous, often invisible labor behind them—from hand-drawn sketches to the design of furniture. This approach reveals how deep-seated cultural assumptions about gender, race, and empire are built into the very tools and practices of knowledge production.

His acclaimed body of work includes *Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers* (2008) and *Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century*, which won the History of Science Society's prestigious Pfizer Award in 2016. His most recent book, *The Astronomer’s Chair: A Visual and Cultural History* (2021), decolonizes scientific furniture by linking the design of observing chairs to 19th-century bourgeois, imperial, and racial ideologies.

Nasim has held prestigious fellowships at Oxford, the Max Planck Institute, and elsewhere. Beyond his research, he is a dedicated academic leader, serving on multiple editorial boards, chairing fellowship committees, and developing innovative curricula. He currently directs the only dedicated Master’s program in the History of Science in Germany, teaching a wide range of topics from the history of photography to German colonial science.