Sophie Roux

She is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the École normale supérieure (Paris).

She earned two Master of Advanced Studies degrees, one in philosophy through Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University under the direction of Michel Serres in 1989, and a second one in history of science through the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) under the direction of Ernest Coumet [fr].

Continuing to work with Coumet at EHESS, she completed a Ph.D. in 1996, with the dissertation La philosophie mécanique (1630–1690).

[3] After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, she became a professeur agrégé at EHESS in 1998, and an assistant professor of early modern philosophy at Pierre Mendès-France University in Grenoble in 2002.

While holding this appointment, she earned a habilitation in 2010 through the École normale supérieure de Lyon.