Since 2022, he serves as deputy director of the Collegium Helveticum and is responsible for its academic programs.
[2] After teaching in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley,[3] he helped run a research group on the history of exactitude between Basel, Zurich, and New York, also teaching history and theory of media at the University of Basel.
[4] Born and raised in Austria, Wimmer was trained in history, sociology, psychology, and science studies in Berlin and Vienna.
[5] Wimmer has published widely on the history of intellectual work and the historical epistemology of the humanities, co-editing special issues on History's Religion[1] or The Promises of Exactitude[2].
Over the past years he has published a series of chapters of an ongoing book project titled Ranke's Blindness.