Ellen Harlizius-Klück is Principal Investigator in the project PENELOPE: A Study of Weaving as Technical Mode of Existence, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant and hostet at Deutsches Museum, Munich. She was international Co-Investigator in the Weaving Codes – Coding Weaves Project, funded by a Digital Transformations Amplification Award of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), and Marie-Curie-Research Fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. The philosophy and technology of ancient textile production and its impact on early scientific thinking is her main interest.