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Emeritus
- Dr Andrew Cunningham: History of medicine
- Professor Nick Jardine: Early-modern cosmology; historiography of the sciences; history of natural history
- Professor Martin Rudwick: History of earth sciences
- Professor Simon Schaffer: History of physical science; social history of science
- Professor Jim Secord: Social history of science; life and earth sciences
- Professor Liba Taub: History of scientific instruments; early science and astronomy
Affiliated Scholars
Visiting Scholars
- Yunting Gu (October 2025 – April 2026)
- Henrik Sova (February 2026 – January 2028)
HPS Scholars in the Collegiate University
- Dr Salim Al-Gailani (Wolfson College): History of modern medicine and reproduction
- Dr Robert Anderson (Clare Hall): Early scientific instruments; history of chemistry
- Dr Shahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk): Social epistemology; research policy; artificial intelligence; existential risks
- Dr Sara Baker (Faculty of Education): Cognitive science and education
- Dr Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic): Anglo-Saxon medicine
- Dr Claire Benn (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence): AI ethics; philosophy of technology
- Professor German Berrios (Robinson College): History and epistemology of psychiatry
- Professor Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy): Philosophy of science; metaphysics; epistemology
- Dr Michael Bravo (Department of Geography): Scientific research and Arctic exploration
- Dr Angela Breitenbach (Faculty of Philosophy): History of modern philosophy; the philosophy of Kant
- Dr Shawn M. Bullock (Faculty of Education): History of physics and technology; history of science education
- Dr Katrina Dean (University Library): Archives; history of science and technology
- Dr Neil Dewar (Faculty of Philosophy): Philosophy of physics; logic
- Professor Saul Dubow (Faculty of History): Imperial and post-colonial history and history of science
- Professor Robbie Duschinsky (Department of Public Health and Primary Care): History and sociology of psychological research and practice
- Professor Kevin Edwards (Clare Hall): 19th and 20th century science; history of palaeoecology
- Dr Seb Falk (Girton College): Science in the later middle ages
- Professor Sarah Franklin (Department of Sociology): Cultural analysis of new reproductive technologies
- Dr Marina Frasca-Spada (Corpus Christi College): History of philosophy from Descartes to Kant; history of philosophy of science; 18th-century studies
- Dr Julia Guarneri (Faculty of History): Social, cultural and environmental history of the United States in the 20th century
- Dr Arthur Harris (Needham Research Institute and Darwin College): Ancient Greek and Chinese science and medicine
- Professor Richard Holton (Faculty of Philosophy): Moral psychology; ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy of language
- Ms Shelley Innes (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Dr Richard Jennings (Queens' College): Philosophy of language; science and ethics
- Professor Martin Johnson (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience): History of recent embryology
- Mr Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
- Dr Melanie Keene (Homerton College): 19th-century 'popular science'; science and literature
- Dr Miles Kempton (Christ's College): History of modern science, especially zoology
- Professor Sachiko Kusukawa (Fellow in HPS, Trinity College): History of science; cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book
- Professor Rae Langton (Faculty of Philosophy): History of philosophy; ethics; political philosophy; metaphysics; feminist philosophy
- Dr Cristian Larroulet Philippi (Gonville & Caius College): Philosophy of social sciences, including economics
- Professor Tony Lawson (Faculty of Economics): Economics and philosophy
- Dr Kathy Liddell (Faculty of Law): Medical law, emerging technologies and intellectual property
- Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Faculty of Classics): Ancient philosophy and science
- Professor Benedikt Löwe (Faculty of Mathematics): Philosophy of mathematics, logic
- Mr Scott Mandelbrote (Faculty of History): History of natural philosophy
- Professor Peter Mandler (Faculty of History): British cultural, intellectual and social history
- Professor Alexander Marr (Department of History of Art): Early modern English visual culture
- Professor Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute): Metallurgy in early China; cultural interactions between China and the West
- Dr Simon Mitton (St Edmund's College): History of astronomy and cosmology
- Dr Samuel A. Moore (University Library): Academic publishing and open science
- Dr Jessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy): Philosophy of mind; epistemology; philosophy of psychology
- Dr Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): History of modern medical technologies
- Dr Alison Pearn (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): Correspondence of Charles Darwin
- Professor Ulinka Rublack (Faculty of History): Consumerism in the early modern world
- Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College): Early-modern intellectual history
- Dr Henry Shevlin (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence): Cognitive capabilities of AI
- Dr William Simpson (St Edmund's College): Metaphysics; philosophy of physics; philosophy of nature; Aristotelianism
- Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History): Global and imperial histories of science, technology and medicine
- Professor Jeffrey Skopek (Faculty of Law): Medical law and ethics
- Elizabeth Smith (Digital Curator, University Library): 19th-century science collections
- Professor Richard M. Smith (Department of Geography): Historical demography and the social history of medicine
- Professor Emma Spary (Faculty of History): History of natural history; history of food and consumption
- Professor Simon Szreter (Faculty of History): History and public policy
- Emeritus Professor Keith S. Taber (Faculty of Education): Science education, including teaching and learning about the nature of science
- Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College): Early 20th-century human sciences
- Dr Dror Weil (Faculty of History): History of science in pre-modern Asia
