UCD's Professor M
aria Baghramian was one of just four Irish Academics elected to the prestigious Academia Europaea this year.
The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy with more than 4,700 members including 80 Nobel laureates. It aims to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations, and further interdisciplinary and international research. Membership is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated sustained academic excellence.
Professor Baghramian said “In these troubled times, when so much of the once shared democratic values in Europe are under threat, I am honoured and pleased to be elected to a genuinely pan-European Academic body with a common vision of excellence across the Sciences, Humanities and the Letters.”
A Professor of American Philosophy at UCD School of Philosophy and a co-director of the UCD Post Graduate Programme in Cognitive Science, she has published widely and is internationally recognised as a leader in her field. She is currently coordinator and project leader of 'PERITIA - Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action,' a Horizon 2020 multi-disciplinary research project to review the role of science in policy decision-making and the conditions under which people should trust and rely on expert opinion that shapes public opinion.
Professor Baghramian has been an active member of three working groups on topics of truth, trust and science with the All European Academies (ALLEA) and its science and policy mechanism SAPEA. She is a member of Royal Irish Academy, the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, the Programme Committee of the 2024 World Congress, and the International Cooperation Committee of the American Philosophical Association. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Harvard University in 2013.
See the full list of Academia Europaea members here: https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/List_of_Members