Soraya de Chadarevian is a historian ofmolecular biology and a professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. She has numerous publications on the history of molecular life sciences and has served as a president of theHistory of Science Society (2026–2027).
Chadarevian grew up in Italy, where she attended theGerman School of Rome. She won a fellowship for a five-year Diploma course in biology at theUniversity of Freiburg, Germany that continued with a year of experimental work in biology at theUniversity of Bologna, Italy. Through this she became more interested in thehistory and philosophy of science and next earned a doctorate in philosophy at theUniversity of Konstanz.[1][2]
Her next work was a history of science postdoctoral position in Berlin;[1] she has since held many fellowships including theWalther Rathenau Institut and theMax Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Social Research at theHamburg Institute,Churchill College at Cambridge, and theInstitute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Beginning in 1991, Chadarevian became a senior research associate and affiliated lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at theUniversity of Cambridge,[2] beginning with a three-yearWellcome Trust fellowship position.[1]
In 2006, Chadarevian joined the faculty of theUniversity of California, Los Angeles, where she is a historian ofmolecular biology and a professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics.[1][2] She also retains affiliation with Cambridge.[2] She has numerous publications on the history of molecular life sciences.[3]
Chadarevian was elected to be president of theHistory of Science Society for the 2026–2027 term.[4]
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