| Education
2011 Postdoctoral research fellow, Interdepartmental Research Centre ASPI (Archivio Storico della Psicologia Italiana), University of Milan Bicocca
Collaborates to the project ‘The body and the machines: life sciences and electricity in Italy from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Age’ (Italian Ministry for Universities, PRIN 2007)
Co-curator (with Oronzo Mauro) of the exhibition 'Elettricità che cura' (Healing electricity), Polo museale Montefiore dell’Aso (AP) 14-30 October 2011, University of Milan Bicocca 25 Jan 2012
2009-2010 Postdoctoral research fellow and teaching assistant, University of Milan Bicocca. Research project: ‘Birth of a scientific community: places, protagonists and ideas from a century of scientific culture in Milan, 1863-1963’
2009 Member of the consulting group for the inventorying and the digitization of the scientific and technological heritage in Lombardy, Italy
2008-2009 Part-time postdoctoral research fellow, Department of History of Medicine, Museum Josephinum, Medical University of Vienna
2008 (Apr) PhD in History of Science, joint PhD Programme University of Bologna and University of Bari. Title: ‘Electrical peripheries. Science and technological innovation in the Lombardo-Veneto Kingdom’ (in Italian). Supervisor: Giuliano Pancaldi
2006 10th International Summer School in History of Science (Berkeley, Bologna, Paris, Uppsala), Office for the History of Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, 11-17 June 2006
2005 Visiting PhD student, Office for the History of Science and Technology OHST, University of California Berkeley
2004 Laurea cum laude, Philosophy, University of Bologna. Dissertation theme: the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and the historiography of science in Italy
1998 Scientific high school degree (Liceo scientifico)
Current position
Postdoctoral research fellow, Équipe REHSEIS du Laboratoire SPHERE, CNRS - University Paris Diderot 7
Main Research Interests
History of science and electricity in 19th century.
Francesco Zantedeschi (1797-1873), scientist and philosopher in the Lombardo-Veneto Kingdom
The Austro-Hungarian patent system and the contribution of local academies to the technological development of northern Italy.
Selected Publications
“Improving technologies. From the local context to the international exhibitions”. In Les expositions universelles en France, au XIXe siècle. Paris: CNRS Editions (forthcoming, 2012)
"Top-down legislation vs local traditions. Entrepreneurship and innovation strategies in the Lombardo-Veneto Kingdom", Revue économique (forthcoming, 2012)
“Scienza di provincia: la fisica di Francesco Zantedeschi nell’Italia preunitaria”, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova (forthcoming, 2012)
“Al mercato della scienza. Strumenti e costi della fisica sperimentale a metà ‘800”. In Atti del XXX Congresso SISFA, editor Roberto Mantovani (forthcoming, 2012)
“From body to machine: electro-medicine in mid-19th century Italy”. In Electricity and Life. Episodes in the history of hybrid objects, editor Giuliano Pancaldi. CIS, University of Bologna, 2011, 46-63
Online exhibition Electricity treatments, between positivism and Belle Époque, http://www.milanocittadellescienze.it/html/mostre/elettricita/mostra-elettricita-che-cura_eng.php
University of Milan Bicocca, 2011
Entries: Apparecchio per esperienze scintilloscopiche, Chimografo, Cronoscopio di Hipp, Ergografo, Pneumografo, Poligrafo, Tachistoscopio a caduta di Wundt, Tamburo di Marey
Archivio Storico della Psicologia Italiana (ASPI) website (http://www.archiviapsychologica.org/index.php?id=862)
University of Milan Bicocca, 2011
Introductory essay to Plinio Schivardi, Manuale teorico-pratico di elettroterapia (1864), reprinted edition. Milan: Lampi di Stampa, 2011
“L’epistolario Zantedeschi, 1853-1858”, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova 43 (2010): 325-343
“Le spese del gabinetto di fisica dell’Università di Padova durante la direzione Zantedeschi (1849-1857)”, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova 42 (2009): 253-268
“L’‘ingegner’ Bartolomeo Avesani, tra accademie e privilegi industriali”, Atti e memorie dell’Accademia di agricoltura, scienze e lettere di Verona 183 (2007-2008 e 2008-2009): 177-190.
“Gli strumenti della fisica”, Quaderni per la storia dell’Università di Padova 41 (2008): 207-259 (with Giampietro Berti)
“Giuseppe Zamboni. Il contesto e gli usi della pila elettrica a secco”. In Storia della società Letteraria di Verona tra Otto e Novecento, editors G. P. Romagnani, M. Zangarini. Verona: Società Letteraria, 2007, 79-90.
“Consuetudine e privilegi. Il governo dell’innovazione nel Regno Lombardo-Veneto”. In Storia, scienza e società. Ricerche sulla scienza in Italia nell’età moderna e contemporanea, editor P. Govoni. CIS, University of Bologna, 2007, 105-141.
(book review) I. R. Morus, Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century, Cambridge, Icon Books, 2004, in Nuncius XX (2005): 268-269
Main conferences (as a speaker)
Les expositions universelles en France au XIXe siècle. Techniques, publics, patrimoines
Paris, Centre d’histoire des techniques du CNAM (CDHTE), 14-16 June 2010
XXX Conference of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA), Urbino, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, 30 June – 3 July 2010.
„… von der vortrefflichsten aller Künste und ihren Instrumenten“. Wissenschaft(geschichte) nach am Menschen. Vienna, Museum Josephinum, Medizinische Universität Wien, 14-15 October 2010
Academy of Agriculture, Science and Letters of Verona seminar series, Verona, Palazzo Erbisti, 21 May 2010
Innovation without patents: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Geneva, Université de Genève Uni Mail, Département d’Histoire économique, 6-8 April 2009
XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology. Ideas and Instruments in Social Context. Budapest, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, 28 July – 2 August 2009.
4th British Academy Network Workshop: Patents and Technological History 1500-2000
Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 21-23 September 2006
Grants and fellowships
Medical University of Vienna postdoctoral research fellowship (Jul 2008 – Jun 2009)
Research in Paris 2010 (Feb 2012 – Jan 2013)
(Updated : March 2012)
|
