Sarah de Rijcke is an assistant professor at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Virtual Knowledge Studio in Amsterdam, where she participated in the research project “Network Realism. Making knowledge from images in digital infrastructure” (lead by Anne Beaulieu). Results of the project have been published in Library Trends, and in the forthcoming edited volumes New Representation in Scientific Practice and Virtual Knowledge (both MIT Press).

Sarah received her PhD with honors from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her dissertation focused on different visual ways of knowing the brain, from the 17th century to the present, in relation to what constitutes an authoritative image. She is currently turning her dissertation into a book. De Rijcke was a research fellow at the University of California, San Diego in 2010, and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2007.

Sarah is on the editorial board of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including History of the Human Sciences, Theory & Psychology, the aforementioned Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

Feature article on thesis in Dutch national radiological journal Memorad (2011).