Marc Ratcliff
Scientific collaborator
Marc J. Ratcliff studied psychology at the University of Geneva and the history of science at University College London. He holds a doctorate in psychology, with an experimental thesis on the development of temporality in children aged 2 to 5 (Geneva, 1995), and a doctorate in the history of science, with a thesis on the development of microscopy in the eighteenth century (London, UCL, 2001). He was an assistant in genetic psychology (FPSE 1986-1992), then a researcher in the history of science with two SNSF grants (1993-1997). From 1997 to 2000, with a post-doc grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he was able to spend three one-year periods at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin, 1997-1998), the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London, 1998-1999) and the Institut Jeantet d'histoire de la médecine (Geneva, 1999-2000). After working as a lecturer at the History of Medicine Institute on an SNSF grant, he taught developmental psychology at the FPSE (2002-2005). Since 2005, he has taught the history of psychology and epistemology at the FPSE and, since 2008, he has been a scientific associate at the Centre Piaget.
He is President of the Jean Piaget Foundation for Psychological and Epistemological Research and a member of the Board of the Jean Piaget Society.
Social Medias
Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 40
1205 Geneva - Switzerland Phone. : +41 (0)22 379 92 85
