The Scientific Board assesses the Institute’s activities and contributes to defining its scientific orientation. It is also responsible for selecting residents from the shortlist chosen by IMéRA’s Pre-selection Committee.

The Board comprises some twenty prestigious international researchers and meets once a year. It is chaired by Giovanni LEVI, with Jean-Pierre SIVAN as Vice Chairman.
Current members:

Rachad ANTONIUS
Sociologist, Université du Québec à Montréal

Françoise BIRG
Cancer researcher, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM)

Karine CHEMLA
Mathematical historian and sinologist, CNRS and Université Paris VII-Diderot.

Marie-Françoise COUREL
Geographer, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.

Anne FAGOT-LARGEAULT
Philosopher and psychiatrist, professor at Collège de France (Chair of Philosophy of Biological and Medical Sciences).

Karim FAWAZ
Doctor, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Etienne GUYON
Physician and museologist, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris.

Jean-Pierre KAHANE
Mathematician, Member of the Académie des sciences, Paris.

Psycholinguist, specialist in cognitive science, CNRS and Université de Provence.

Rashid KHALIDI
Historian, The Middle East Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York.

Giovanni LEVI
Historian, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice; Chairman of the IMéRA Scientific Board.

Antoine LYON-CAEN
Jurist, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-la Défense and EHESS.

Christine MENGIN
Architectural historian, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Gretty MIRDAL
Psychologist, University of Copenhagen.

Jean-Claude RISSET
Musician, composer, researcher in acoustic physics (CNRS).

Jean-Pierre SIVAN
Astrophysician, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS); Vice Chairman of the IMéRA Scientific Board.

Betül TANBAY
Mathematician, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.