I am originally from Italy. There, I studied Greek and Latin, history, and philosophy and got a B.Sc. in Physics. I also studied in England and the United States (Lancaster University, Imperial College, and Indiana University). I completed a PhD in history and philosophy of science at Indiana University (2011, minor in Renaissance Studies), with a dissertation on Francis Bacon, experiment, and early Stuart culture. My supervisor at Indiana was Bill Newman.
Afterwards, I was a fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, a postdoctoral fellow at the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, and a senior research fellow at the Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences (University of Amsterdam). I also worked for eight years on two leading digital history projects: The Chymistry of Isaac Newton and The Newton Project.
From August 2017 to March 2021, I held a grant for a project titled “The Weight of Things. Quantification of Matter and the Exchange of Technical and Learned Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I ran this project at the Institute of Philosophy, History of Literature, Science and Technology of Technische Universität, Berlin.
EDUCATION
2011 PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
2006 M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
2000 M.A. in History of Science, Lancaster University
1996 Laurea in Fisica (Physics), University of Genoa, Italy
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2021-2023 European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (Princeton University and University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari)
2017-2021 Researcher and Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Technische Universität Berlin
2013-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the History of Knowledge, Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin
2011-2013 Manuscript Digitization Manager, The Newton Project, University of Sussex/University of Oxford
2010-2011 Gordon Cain Fellow, Science History Institute, Philadelphia
2004-2009 Research Assistant, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, Indiana University, Bloomington
2003-2004 Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Awarded 2020 2-year European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Princeton University and University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari; Project: “Empirical Knowledge and Antiquarian Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Venice.” Advisors: Anthony Grafton and Marco Sgarbi)
2017-2021 Individual Research Grant, DFG – German Research Foundation (Projekt-Nr.: 339935097, “The Weight of Things. Quantification of Matter and the Exchange of Technical and Learned Knowledge in Early Modern Europe”)
2019 Deutsches Museum, Munich. Scholar-in-Residence Program
2018 Dibner Short-term Fellowship, Huntington Library, CA
2017 Senior Research Fellowship, Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences, University of Amsterdam
2017 Research Fellowship, ARTECHNE – Technique in the Arts, 1500-1950
2017 Research Fellowship, Gerda Henkel Stiftung
2016 Research Grant, Scientific Instruments Society
2015 New Scholars Award, Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
2013-2016 Research Fellowship, Center for the History of Knowledge, Berlin
2011 Victor E. Thoren Graduate Research Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington
2011 Gordon Cain Fellowship, Science History Institute
2009 Norwood Russell Hanson Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Papers, Indiana University, Bloomington
2006 Roy G. Neville Fellowship, Science History Institute
2002-2006 Norwood Russell Hanson Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington
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