Jimena Canales is an award-winning author and historian of science. Her books include Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science (Cosmos Prize 2022) The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Best Science Books 2015 Science Friday and NPR, Top Reads 2015 The Independent, Books of the Year 2016 The Tablet) and A Tenth of a Second: A History (The Guardian’s Top 10 Books About Time). Her essays have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Artforum, Aperture, Nautilus and WIRED as well as in numerous scholarly journals. She was previously Assistant and Associate Professor at Harvard University and the Thomas M. Siebel professor for the History of Science at the University of Illinois. She is currently living in Cambridge, MA.