Dr. Kristin Eva Albrechsen Veel
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture
Humanities, Languages, Mathematics and statistics
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Sinologie
History of Mathematics, particularly in China
Relations between the history of Mathematics and Linguistics
Mathematics and Culture
Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Research Grant "Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World" (SAW), 2011 – 2016
Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (New York University), 2010
"Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Professorship for Senior Foreign Scientists" Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Science, 2009, for a stay in China in 2010
Silver Medal CNRS, 2008
Award, with Guo Shuchun, of the Prize Ikuo HIRAYAMA, Academy of Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres for the book Les Neuf chapitres. Le classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires, 2006
Award of the Prize Binoux, Henri de Parville, Jean-Jacques Berger, Remlinger from the French Academy of science, in 2006 http://www.academie-sciences.fr/prix/prix_2006.htm
Fellow at the Dibner Institute, 2006
Effective member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences, since 2005
Member of the German Academy Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina), in the section History of science and medicine, since 2005
Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin). Elected Delegate of the Fellows, 1994 – 1995
Chinese, English, French, German
Chemla, K. (ed.), The history of mathematical proof in the ancient traditions, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Chemla, K. & Guo Shuchun, Les Neuf Chapitres, Dunod, 2004, 1150 S.
Chemla, K., Ekeland, I. (eds.): Mathématiques à venir. Quels mathématiciens pour l'an 2000? Dunod, 1988. Supplementary volume in 1987 of the Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France, 400 S.
Chemla, K. (ed.): Démarches mathématiques. Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle. Presses Universitaires de France, 1989. S. 987-1106.
Chemla, K., Volkov, A., Lichtmann, V. (eds.): Modèles et structures des textes chinois anciens. Extrême-Orient, Extrême Occident 13, 1991. 162 S.
Chemla, K., Benoit, P., Ritter, J. (eds.): Histoire de fractions, fractions d'histoire. Collection "Science Networks" 10, Birkhäuser 1992. 440 S.
Chemla, K., Dahan, A., Chabert, J.-L. (eds.): Chaos et déterminisme. Points Sciences, Le Seuil 1992. 416 S.
Chemla, K. (ed.): Regards obliques sur l'argumentation en Chine. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 14, 1992. 206 S.
Chemla, K., Martin, F. (eds.): Le juste nom. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 15, 1993. 176 S.
Chemla, K., Martin, F., Pigeot, J. (eds.): Le travail de la citation en Chine et au Japon. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 17, 1995. 160 S.
Chemla, K., Lackner, M. (eds.): Disposer pour dire, placer pour penser, situer pour agir. Pratiques de la position en Chine. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 18, 1996. 192 S.
Chemla, K. et al. (eds.): Ceci n'est pas un festschrift pour Imre Toth, 29. 12. 1996. Available at http://halshs.ccsd.cnrs.fr/halshs-00004274/
Chemla, K. (ed.): La valeur de l'exemple. Perspectives chinoises. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 19, 1997. 160 S.
Chemla, K., Kalinowski, M., Harper, D. (eds.): Divination et rationalité en Chine ancienne. Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 21, 1999. 176 S.
Member of the Board of the Conseil d'Orientation Scientifique et Pédagogique (COSP) of the group of Universities PRES "Sorbonne Paris Cité", since 2010
Assistant Secretary General of the Council of the Division of History of Science and Technology, since 2009
Elected Member of the Administration Council of the University Paris Diderot, in 2008
Editor responsible for mathematical terms in the international project led by C. Harbsmeier, Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS), since 2003
Director of the French Nation-wide Interdisciplinary Program CNRS-Ministry of Research "History of knowledge", 2003-2007. All documents about the Program can be found at http://www.cnrs.fr/prg/PIR/programmes-termines/histsavoirs/histsavoirs.htm
Head of the International Project of Advanced Study "History and historiography of mathematical proof in ancient traditions", Columbia University-MSH-REHSEIS, March – June 2002
Member of the International Commission of Science and Cultural Diversity (IASCUD) of the Division of History and Philosophy of Science, since 2001. Elected vice-president of the Bureau, since 2005: General secretary
Director of the research group REHSEIS, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, 2001 – 2008
Member of the French National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science (attached to the Académie des Sciences), since 1999. 2011: Elected President.
Member of the scientific council of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises – Collège de France, since 1997
Member of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics, representing France, since 1992
Member of the Editorial board of Ziran kexueshi yanjiu (Research in history of natural sciences), since 2010
Member of the Editorial board of the website "Images des mathématiques", CNRS, for a section on history of mathematics, since 2008
Member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat of "NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin", since 2007
Member of the International editorial board of EASTS (East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal), since 2007
Member of the International editorial board of Zhongguo keji shi zazhi (Journal for the history of science and technology in China), Academia Sinica, Beijing, since 2007
Member of the editorial board Ganita Bharati, since 2006
Member of the editorial board of the Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Société Mathématique de France, since its creation (1994). Co-chief editor, 1998 – 2001. Member of the editorial board, 2001 – 2004. Member of the reading committee, since 2004
Member of the editorial committee for mathematics in the Encyclopedia Britannica, responsible for China, pre-Modern India and Japan, 2000 – 2002
Member of the International advisory board of the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, since 1999
Scientific advisor of the Encyclopedia Universalis for their corpus on mathematics, 1997 – 1999
Editor of the section on the history of science in China in the Storia della scienza, prepared by the Enciclopedia Italiana, in collaboration with the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. Co-editors: Francesca Bray, Fu Daiwie, Huang Yi-Long and Georges Métailié. The section appeared in 2001 in Vol. II. A selection of papers were published by the sinological journal in Chinese Faguo hanxue (French Sinology) 6, 2002, since 1996
Member of the editorial board of the series in history of science "Science Networks", Chief editors: Hans Wussing and Erwin Hiebert, Birkhäuser, Basel (1995-2000), Eberhard Knobloch and Erhard Scholz, Birkhäuser (since 2000), since 1995
Member of the editorial board of the Newsletter for the History of Chinese Science, Taiwan, 1993 – 2001
Chief editor, with F. Martin (EPHE) of the journal for Far Eastern Studies Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes (1992-2005). Member of the Editorial Board, since 2005
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