Lukas Engelmann

Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh

Lukas Engelmann is a Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. His research is concerned with the history of epidemiological reasoning in the twentieth century, for which he established and leads the Epidemy Lab, funded by an ERC Starting Grant. He also co-leads a project on ‘Medicine without Doctors’ funded by a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award. His first book, Mapping AIDS, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018 and considers the visual and medical history of AIDS/HIV. He recently published a co-authored monograph with Christos Lynteris, Sulphuric Utopias, with MIT Press (open access) in 2020, which tells the technological history of fumigation. His forthcoming book is titled ‘Pandemic Now’, tracing how epidemiology lost its history, to be published in 2026 with Johns Hopkins University Press.