Fernando Vidal

Fernando Vidal is a Research Professor at the Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) since 2012 and holds concurrent appointments as Professor at the Center for the History of Science (CEHIC), Autonomous University of Barcelona (2013–present), and Associate Member at the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris (2016–present). His academic career spans institutions including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University, and the University of Geneva.

• History of Science (Human Sciences, Mind/Brain)
• Science and Film
• Science and Values
• Science and Religion
• Public Understanding of Science
• Intellectual/Cultural History

Scientific Awards

• 2014 Cheiron Book Prize for contributions to the history of behavioral/social sciences
• Athena Fellow (Swiss National Science Foundation, 1997–2000)
• Guggenheim Memorial Fellow (1995)
• Prix Latsis Universitaire (1994)
• Théodore Flournoy Scholarship (1985)
• Jean-Louis Claparède Prize (1984)
• Augustus Clifford Tower Fellow (Harvard, 1981–1982)