Thomas Pradeu#
| Membership Number: | 7570 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://immunoconcept.cnrs.fr/people/thomas-pradeu/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6590-3281 |
| Publication Link: | https://immunoconcept.cnrs.fr/thomas-pradeu-publications/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- First class "Directeur de Recherche," equivalent to Full Professorship, at CNRS & the University of Bordeaux, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, California, USA
- 2014 - 2017 CNRS Junior Researcher in Philosophy of Science (tenured, full-time research position, equivalent to Associate Professor), affiliated with the Bordeaux immunology laboratory
- 2008 - 2014 Associate Professor (tenured), Philosophy Department, Paris-Sorbonne University
Fields of Scholarship
- Conceptual & theoretical approaches in the biological sciences
- Philosophy of science, including metaphysics of science
- Philosophy of medicine
- History of biology and medicine
- Philosophy of biology
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - 2025 Moore Foundation Grant on theoretical approaches to the microbiome (€600,000)
- 2021 - 2021 CASBS (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) Fellow, Stanford Univ., USA
- 2015 - 2020 ERC Starting Grant IDEM (Immunity, Development, and the Microbiota) (€1.5M)
- 2011 - 2014 Junior member of Institut universitaire de France (IUF)
- 2017 Lakatos Award for the book The Limits of the Self. The Lakatos award is the highest recognition in philosophy of science internationally.
- 2008 Award for best PhD thesis in the humanities, Chancellerie des Universités de Paris
