Anna Kvíčalová is a historian of science, religion and the senses. She received her MA from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from Freie Universität; between 2013–17 she worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is the author of «Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe» and other texts on sound, hearing and acoustics in early modern Europe. She is the leader of the research project «The Second Sense: Sound, Hearing and Nature in Czech Modernity», which deals with the history of auditory objectivity in Central Europe.