Claudia Wedepohl received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg in Art History. She is currently Archivist at the Warburg Institute in London, a position she has held since 2006, after holding the position of Archive Assistant from 2000 to 2006. In July 2007 and December 2008 Claudia Wedepohl was visiting fellow at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin. She is a member of the committee of editors of Aby Warburg’s collected works (Gesammelte Schriften, Studienausgabe).