In 1993, she published Histoire de la chimie with Isabelle Stengers, for which they received the Prix Jean-Rostand.
[1] Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent studies the philosophy and history of chemistry and of materials science.
[12] Bensaude-Vincent is particularly concerned with emerging technologies such as nanotechnologies and synthetic biology and with the philosophy of technoscience,[13][14] She writes about positivism and the tradition of French epistemology.
[1] In 1993, she published Histoire de la chimie with Isabelle Stengers, which was translated into English as A History of Chemistry in 1997.
[1] Her work with the European Science Foundation resulted in the publication of "a particularly productive comparative analysis" of scientific education and the development of chemistry textbooks in European countries in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Communicating chemistry: textbooks and their audiences, 1789–1939 (2000).
[28] From 2005 to 2008, Bensaude-Vincent coordinated a research program on "Nanobioethics", the ethics of nanobiotechnology, for France's Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR).
[30] Beginning in 2009, Bensaude-Vincent co-directed a joint ANR/DFG project on the "Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects" (GOTO), working with Sacha Loeve in France and Astrid Schwarz and Alfred Nordmann in Germany.
[31] The project sought to distinguish between science and technoscience, and resulted in the edited work Research Objects in their Technological Setting (2017).