Noga Arikha is a philosopher, historian of ideas and science humanist. She is an Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute, Research Associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, and member of the SPHERE Research Unit. Her first book, Passions and Tempers, was a New York Times Review Editor's Choice and one of the Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books. Her second, co-authored with her husband Marcello Simonetta, was Napoleon and the Rebel.