Anna Echterhölter is Professor of History of Science at the University of Vienna. She was a visiting professor at Technical University, Berlin, and the Institute of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University of Berlin and held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2008, 2015), and the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC (2016). Echterhölter is a co-founder of Ilinx magazine. Research topics include economic exchange and metrology, standardization and colonialism, the history of quantification, and the political metallurgy of copper.