Dr Aileen Fyfe is a reader in history at the University of St Andrews. She is leading the major 4-year project on the history of the Phil Trans: ‘Publishing the Philosophical Transactions: the social, cultural and economic history of a learned journal, 1665-2015‘. Aileen’s main teaching and research focus is upon British cultural history in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular emphases on science and technology, religion, and the history of publishing and communication.
Aileen is a former treasurer of the British Society for History of Science and chair of the Royal Irish Academy’s History of Science Committee.