July 1st, 2025
Luis Vassy, President of Sciences Po, has appointed Paul-André Rosental as Scientific Director.
Paul-André Rosental is a College Professor at Sciences Po, the place he has served as Director of the Centre for Historical past since 2022. His analysis focuses on the historical past of the biopolitical area, a broad discipline encompassing social safety, demography, migration, and public well being. With a deeply interdisciplinary educational background, he’s the writer of a number of books printed each in France and internationally, in addition to over 100 scholarly articles — together with round thirty in medical journals. On this discipline, he has led a significant venture funded by the European Analysis Council, rooted in his work as a historian, which has had a tangible affect on occupational well being insurance policies in each France and the US. Paul-André Rosental serves on quite a few scientific advisory boards in France and overseas, notably inside the Inhabitants Europe community in Berlin and the French Institute for Public Well being Analysis (IReSP).
Luis Vassy, President of Sciences Po: “I’m proud to entrust the position of Scientific Director to Paul-André Rosental, who will not be solely a distinguished scholar but additionally a number one advocate of interdisciplinarity and a perceptive observer of the upper schooling and analysis panorama, each in France and overseas. Together with his distinctive experience and strategic imaginative and prescient, he’ll make a decisive contribution to our scientific excellence, to the dynamism and vitality of our analysis items, to the mixing of analysis and instructing, and to the opening of latest fields of scientific inquiry. I’m delighted to depend on him to additional elevate the mental ambition and visibility of Sciences Po.”
Paul-André Rosental, Scientific Director: ” Sciences Po should replicate, educate, and act in a historic second which marks a break with the post-Chilly Conflict period. The rationale why a historian affords to guide its scientific coverage at such a turning level, is as a result of a long-term perspective is important to tell apart transformations that echo acquainted patterns from people who demand new fashions of understanding. Considering via the unprecedented — by strengthening our educational and public presence, and getting ready our scholar and doctoral neighborhood for the obligations they may bear — would be the tenet of my mandate as Scientific Director.”
