Kärin Nickelsen (born 1972)[1] is a German historian of science whose works have included books on eighteenth-century botanical illustration, photosynthesis, and life-support systems for human spaceflight.
She is a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Nickelsen earned a diploma at the University of Göttingen in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
In 2011 she took her present position as professor for the History of Science at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
[2][3] Nickelsen is the author of: Nickelsen won the Dalberg Prize [de] in 2010, and became a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2011.