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Jimena Canales is an award-winning author and scholar focusing on science in the modern world. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of Science and a BSc in Engineering Physics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her …

Élie During is a lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre, where he teaches contemporary French philosophy. He is currently a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). His research on the notion of space-time takes him to the …

Bernard Derrida was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1971. After passing the agrégation in physics in 1974, he obtained his doctorate from Orsay University in 1979. In 1979, he joined the CEA's Theoretical Physics Department in Saclay, before …

Jean-François Joanny is Professor of Physics at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He has been Managing Director of ESPCI Paris since January 2014. He began his career at the CNRS, Collège de France in Paris, then in Lyon. He was appointed …

Françoise Combes is an astrophysicist at Paris Observatory, holder of the "Galaxies and Cosmology" chair at the Collège de France, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. She is interested in the formation and evolution of galaxies, including …

Françoise Balibar is Professor Emeritus (Physics) at Paris Diderot University. On behalf of the CNRS, she has organized the publication of six volumes of Einstein's texts (scientific, political, philosophical) translated into French, introduced, commented …

Antoine Compagnon has been Professor of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France since 2006, and Professor at Columbia University (New York). He is a historian of French literature, novelist and critic, author of Le Démon de la …