Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel is a Full Professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, holding the chair of Digital Humanities. She pursued her academic studies in France, completing her education at the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and the Ecole normale supérieure, where she studied history, philosophy, and social sciences. After obtaining an Agrégation d'histoire in 1999 and a PhD in history from Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne university in 2005, she served as an Associate Professor (maître de conferences) in Modern and Contemporary art at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris (Paris Sciences Letres university) from 2007 to 2019. She also holds an “Habilitation à diriger les recherches” since 2015.

Her research interests include the global history of the avant-gardes, visual globalization, the visual culture of petroleum, crypto-art and the NFTs, and the digital turn in the humanities. Since 2009, Professor Joyeux-Prunel has been the founder and manager of the Artlas Project (https://artlas.huma-num.fr), and in 2016 she founded Postdigital (www.postdigital.ens.fr), a research project focused on digital cultures and imagination. In 2019, she was awarded a 3-year European grant for the Center of Excellence Jean Monnet (European Erasmus Agency Label), the IMAGO Center, which is dedicated to the study and teaching of European cultures through images (https://imago.ens.fr).

Since January 2021, Professor Joyeux-Prunel's research project, VISUAL CONTAGIONS, which explores the global circulation of images and the role of images in globalization, has been funded by the Swiss National Research Fund (SNFS) for a period of four years (https://visualcontagions.unige.ch).