Karine Chemla, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh and SPHERE, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) & University Paris Cité. Her current work focuses, from a historical anthropology viewpoint, on the relationship between mathematics and the various cultures in the context of which it is practiced. Chemla co-edited, with E. Fox Keller, Cultures without culturalism: The making of scientific knowledge (Duke University Press, 2017); with A. Keller and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world (2022), and, with A. Keller, Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World. Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History (2024). Chemla was awarded the Otto Neugebauer Prize (European Mathematical Society, 2020) and the Neuenschwander Prize (European Society for the History of Science, 2024).

Prof. Karine Chemla has served as Officer of the Social Sciences and Humanities Division since December 2024, for the mandate December 2024 – November 2027 (current and first term, in accordance with the EurASc Bylaws).