Karine Chemla#
| Membership Number: | 3610 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006, 1 — 6: Fellow at the Dibner Institute, MIT
- 2005, 10 — Today: Directrice de recherche première classe au CNRS (Senior Researcher, higher level, CNRS)
- 1997, 10 — 2005, 9: Directrice de recherche seconde classe au CNRS (Senior Researcher, lower level, CNRS)
- 2003 — 2007: — Director of the French Nation-wide Interdisciplinary Program CNRS-Ministry of Research « History of knowledge », 2003-2007. All documents about the Program can be found at http://www.cnrs.fr/prg/PIR/programmes-termines/histsavoirs/histsavoirs.htm
- 1994, 10 - 1995, 7, Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin)
- 1986, 10 — 1997, 9: Chargée de recherche de première classe au CNRS (Junior Researcher, higher level, CNRS)
- 1982, 10 — 1986, 9: Attachée de recherche CNRS (Junior Researcher, lower level, CNRS)
Fields of Scholarship
- History of science
- History of mathematics
- Sinology
Honours and Awards
- 2013 - 2014 George Sarton chair holder, Universiteit Ghent
- 2010 ERC Advanced research grant (project started in 2011).
- 2010 - 2013 Professor on invited chair, Jiaotong University Shanghai, China.
- 2010 - 2013 Additional Professor, Normal University Hebei 河北師範大學兼職教授, China.
- 2010 Chevalier dans l’Ordre national du Mérite (Decree May 14, 2010).
- 2010 - Today Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW, New York University)
- 2009 Awarded a « Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior Foreign Scientists 外国专家特聘研究员 » Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009, for a stay in 2010).
- 2008 Silver Medal, CNRS.
- 2006 With Guo Shuchun, Prize Ikuo HIRAYAMA, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres for the book Les Neuf chapitres. Le classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires.
- 2006 Prize Binoux, Henri de Parville, Jean-Jacques Berger, Remlinger, French Academy of Science
- 2005 elected Member of the Academia Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina), in the section History of science and medicine.
- 2005 - Today Invited professor at the Northwest University, Xi'an, China.
- 2005 Effective member of the International Academy of History of Science.
