Paris Institute for Advanced Study

[1] It was inspired by the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, founded in 1930, which counted as its fellows well known researchers such as Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel or Clifford Geertz, and who served as a model for similar IAS that were subsequently created all over the world.

[3] Its current director is Saadi Lahlou, Chair of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gretty Mirdal, who was the director from 2012 until 2018, broadened this field of enquiry by creating a thematic program dedicated to neuro- and cognitive sciences.

[6] The fellows as well as the partner institutions of the Paris IAS organize each year about a hundred scientific events in its premises, sometimes addressing major societal issues.

Jennifer Boittin,[8] Robert Darnton,[9] Itzhak Fried,[10] Giandomenico Iannetti,[11] Mark Lilla[12] Leonardo López Luján[13] and Elisabeth Spelke can be mentioned among the researchers who were granted a fellowship at the Paris IAS.