She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated with the Centre for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China (CECMC) at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris.
[2] She is the former president of the Association française d’études chinoises and of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.
From 1980 to 1985, Jami studied mathematics at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles, earning an agrégation in 1982, a diplôme d'études approfondies in 1984, and a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1985 through the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
From 1986 to 1998 she was part of the research group on the history of science and technology in China, Korea, and Japan headed by Pierre-Étienne Will [fr], from 1991 to 2009 she was associated with the group for epistemological and historical research on exact sciences and scientific institutions (REHSEIS), and in 2009 (with the rest of the group) she became part of the SPHERE laboratory for sciences, philosophy, and history at Paris Diderot University.
[6] Jami is the author of: She is also co-editor of many edited volumes and guest editor of special issues of journals.