Cristina Cerami received her PhD in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2007 and joined the CNRS in 2008, where she is a Senior Research Fellow ("Directeur de Recherche"). She is affiliated to the SPHERE laboratory (CNRS, UMR 7219), where she directs the CHSPAM (Centre for the History of Arab and Medieval Sciences and Philosophies).

Her research revolves around two main areas. The first concerns Aristotle and his reception in the Greek, Arabic and Latin worlds, with particular emphasis on his natural philosophy, cosmology, metaphysics and theory of knowledge. The second focuses on the Arabic philosophical tradition, encompassing both falsafa (the medieval Arabic tradition influenced by Greek philosophy), with particular regard to key figures such as al-Fārābī, Avicenna and Averroes, and kalām (Islamic rational theology), focusing on the complex interactions between these two philosophical traditions.

She has published extensively on these topics, including her monograph "Génération et substance : Aristote et Averroès entre physique et métaphysique, Walter de Gruyter, 2015" and the edited volume "Nature et Sagesse. Les rapports entre physique et métaphysique dans la tradition aristotélicienne, Peeters, 2014", as well as numerous research articles.

In addition to her research, she has taught Greek and Arabic philosophy for several years at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Paris Cité, and currently teaches the history of Arabic philosophy at Sorbonne Université.