Etienne Benson
The University of Oxford | 2018-Present
Etienne Benson is Director of Department II, Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. After completing his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008), Benson took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard (2008-2010). He subsequently held positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, New York University-Berlin and the University of Pennsylvania. Benson’s research focuses on the history of science, politics and the environment in Europe and the United States from the eighteenth century onwards. Benson’s book Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2020.
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Cognitive NeuroscienceArea of Research
Neuroplasticity and Learning
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