Lilian Kroth is a researcher in philosophies of nature and history of science who studies how the natural world is understood through concepts, scientific instruments, and aesthetic practices. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge on concepts of the limit in the work of philosopher of science Michel Serres in 2023. She studied philosophy (BA and MA) at the University of Vienna as well as Fine Arts (with a focus on drawing) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Kroth has been an associated researcher at the University of Groningen and the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, and a co-organiser of the interdisciplinary research network “Remote Sensing: Ice, Instruments, Imagination” at Cambridge. She is currently based in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where she leads the project “Seeing like a Satellite” and contributes to the project “Aerial Spatial Revolution” (Swiss National Science Foundation).
