Team

Dr. Theresa Holler

Project Leader

Theresa Holler studied Art History and Romance Philology at the Universities of Aachen, Rome and Trier. She then pursued her doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and in that time also worked as a research assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute. In 2017 she completed her PhD with the interdisciplinary thesis Jenseitsbilder. Dantes Commedia und ihr Weiterleben im Weltgericht bis 1500. From 2017-21 she was a research assistant in the Premodern Art Department at the University of Bern, as well as a postdoctoral collaborator in the ERC-funded project Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art. For the 2021 summer semester, she was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Trier. In November 2021 she was awarded a SNF-Ambizione grant and has since been pursuing a habilitation project at the University of Basel titled Healing Arts. Representations and Practices of Medical Knowledge in Art and Literature, 9th-12th centuries.

Dr. Lyvia Baptista Wilhelm

Research Assistent

Lyvia Baptista Wilhelm is studying her MA in Art History at the University of Basel and joined the SNF-Ambizione-Project Healing Arts as a research assistant in January 2022. She has a background in museology and history, having completed her PhD in February 2013 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), with a thesis on the historical perspective in the work of Procopius of Caesarea (6th century AD). Between 2013 and 2021 she worked as a professor of ancient and medieval history at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). In 2017 she took a sabbatical year as visiting researcher at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Modern Greek Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Gregor von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk

Research Assistent

Since 2022, Gregor von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk is studying art history and philosophy at the University of Basel. He completed his bachelor degree at the University of Berne with a thesis on the dedication miniatures of the so-called Egmond Gospels. During his studies in Berne, he worked as a student assistant for Prof. Urte Krass and for the ERC project Global Horizons, led by Prof. Beate Fricke. After internships at the Wallraf Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, he now works as a student assistant for the SNF-Ambizione project Healing Arts, led by Dr. Theresa Holler at the University of Basel.