Occupation Writer Name Jimena Canales | Role Writer | |
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Notable works A Tenth of a Second: A History and The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time Books A Tenth of a Second: A History | ||
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Jimena Canales is a Mexican-American physicist and engineer, and award-winning historian of science and author.
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Career
Jimena Canales is the author of the award-winning The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time (2015) and A Tenth of a Second: A History (2009) as well as numerous articles on the history of modernity; specializing in art, science and technology (appearing in Artforum, Aperture, WIRED, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, among others). Canales obtained a B.S. 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 Science at the same university in 2003. In 2004 she worked as an assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and in 2013 she was promoted to associate professor. In 2012 she was senior fellow at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie and in the summer she worked as a visiting professor at the Summer School for Media Studies at Princeton University in the German department. In 2013 she was awarded the title "Thomas M.Siebel Chair in the History of Science" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jimena Canales has collaborated with the philosopher Bruno Latour, the artist Olafur Eliasson and the cosmologist Lee Smolin.
Her work on art and science has been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and at the 11th Shanghai Biennale.