Erich Weidenhammer, Curator
Erich Weidenhammer began working to develop the collection in 2009 along with a group of graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST). Graduating with a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2014, he continues to lead the project through a part-time contract curator position.
Erich is also an Adjunct Curator for Scientific Processes at Ingenium: Canada’s Museums of Science & Innovation.
Victoria Fisher, Assistant Curator
Victoria Fisher is a Public Historian. She received her PhD from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) in 2023. Her thesis focused on the material culture of Canadian university departments of Physics, 1890-1939.
Victoria has worked with the collection since 2015. Currently, she works for the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics as Historian in Residence, where part of her job involves caring for the department’s historical collection.
Mike Thicke, Web Developer
Mike is a graduate of the IHPST, a social epistemologist of science, and a web developer. He has developed several versions of UTSIC’s catalogue software since its inception, including its current incarnation as a WordPress plugin. He is currently working to make this software generally available to anyone interested in operating an online museum. It is freely available (as a work-in-progress) in his GitHub repository.
For the last several years Mike taught at Bard College and the Bard Prison Initiative. Beginning in June 2021, Mike is a web developer for Humanities Commons, operated by Michigan State University. He lives in Kingston, New York.