Jean De Groot received her Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University, where she studied the history of early mechanics and wrote her dissertation on ancient optics. She studied Neo-Platonism at the University of Paris, attending the seminar of Pierre Hadot, and Aristotelian natural philosophy at the Warburg Institute and the Institute for Classical Studies in London. She teaches courses in ancient philosophy and philosophy of science, focusing on the logic and natural philosophy of Aristotle and twentieth century philosophy of science.