Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American historian of science and author with a background in physics and engineering.
Jimena Canales is the author of Simply Einstein (2021),[1] Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (2020),[2] The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time (2015)[3] and A Tenth of a Second: A History (2009)[4] as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker,[5] The Atlantic,[6] NPR,[7] among others).
in engineering physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 1995, a master's degree in History of Science at the Harvard University and a PhD in History of Science at the same university in 2003.
[9] In 2013 she was recruited to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science, which she held until 2017.
[10] Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.