Professor Cordelia Fine holds the position of Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science programme within the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She completed studies in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, followed by an M.Phil. in Criminology at Cambridge University and a PhD in Psychology from University College London. Fine's career trajectory includes research associate and postdoctoral positions at Monash University, the Australian National University, and Macquarie University from 2002 to 2011. She then joined the University of Melbourne as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow from 2012 to 2016, during which time she also served as an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences.

Fine specializes in the history and philosophy of science, with a focus on critiquing biological explanations of behavioural sex differences, neurosexism, gender stereotypes, workplace gender equity, and policies supporting working fathers. Her major publications include the bestselling book Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (2010), shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the Warwick Prize; A Mind of Its Own (2006); Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds (2017), which won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Books Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize; and Patriarchy Inc. (2025). These works have profoundly influenced academic and public debates on sex differences research, gender equality, and scientific methodologies in neuroscience and psychology. Fine contributes to interdisciplinary seminars, such as those hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics Gender Lab, and her scholarship is widely cited for challenging simplistic narratives of gendered minds and promoting evidence-based approaches to gender diversity.

Professional Email: cfine@unimelb.edu.au