Fernando Vidal#
| Membership Number: | 4517 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://icrea.academia.edu/FVidal |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Associate Member, Centre Alexandre Koyré-Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris
- 2013 - present Professor, Center for the History of Science (CEHIC), Autonomous University of Barcelona
- 2012 - present Research Professor, Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
- 2000 - 2012 Senior Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 1998 - 1999 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
- 1994 - 2000 Maître d’enseignement et de recherche, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva
- 1992 - 1994 Maître-assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva
- 1990 - 1992 Assistant Professor of Psychology and Humanities, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
- 1989 - 1990 Maître-assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva
Fields of Scholarship
- Science and values
- Intellectual and cultural history, with focus on discussions of personhood and mind-body
- Public understanding of science
- Science and religion
- History of science, with focus on the history of the human sciences and the sciences of the mind/brain
- Art and Science
- Science and film
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Book Prize of Cheiron, The international society for the history of behavioral and social sciences
- 1997 - 2000 Athena Fellow, Swiss National Science Foundation
- 1995 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
- 1994 Prix Latsis Universitaire, Latsis International Foundation
- 1985 Théodore Flournoy Scholarship, University of Geneva
- 1984 Jean-Louis Claparède Prize, University of Geneva
- 1981 - 1982 Augustus Clifford Tower Fellow, Harvard University
