Current position
Research fellow in History of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna in the framework of the PRIN 2022 project Musealising the Italian Scientist (1839-1939): Practices, Narratives, Memories, on the cases of the ‘Tribuna di Galileo’ (Florence, 1841) and the ‘Tribuna Aldrovandiana’ (Bologna, 1881-1907), November 2023-Present.
Education
PhD Student at the Department of History of the European University Institute (Florence). Thesis title: The Natural History of the Risorgimento. Science, Environment and Nation-building in Nineteenth-century Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Stéphane Van Damme; Second Reader: Prof. Lucy Riall. [PhD Defence planned for early 2024]
Visiting PhD at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) - Centre Alexandre-Koyré. Tutor: Prof. Alice Ingold, March-June 2022.
Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences, November 2017. Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. Thesis title: The Anthropocene: A Historical Critical Study. Grade: 110/110 with honours.
Relevant academic experience
Certified Teacher Training awarded after participation in a training course at the European University Institute, January-February 2022.
Organisation of conferences, workshops and talk series as coordinator of the Working Group in History of Science and Medicine of the European University Institute, 2019-2023. Selected events:
- ‘Effluvia and Enlightenment on the Habsburg Frontier’, guest: Deborah Coen (Yale University), EUI – Department of History, 15 March 2023.
- ‘Histories of Disease in a Pandemic’, guest: Erica Charters (Oxford University), EUI – Department of History, 12 September 2022.
- ‘The Sick Body of the Artisan: Labour, Medicine and Health in Ramazzini’s Diseases of Workers (1700)’, guest: Paola Bertucci (Yale University), EUI – Department of History, 28 April 2022.
- ‘The Myth of the “One-Sex” Body’, guest: Katharine Park (Harvard University), EUI – Department of History, 22 November 2021.
Paper presentations at international conferences (see CV for full list).
Other qualifications
‘Master of Research’, European University Institute, August 2020.
‘Cultrice della materia’ (subject expert) in History of Science at the University of Florence – Department of Humanities, a.y. 2022/2023, 2023/2024.
Languages
Italian, English, French, Spanish.
