Academic Career
2018-: Associate Professor of the History of Science (Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna).
2017: Abilitazione as Professor of the History of Science.
2016-2017: Associate Professor of the History of Science (Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna).
2014-2020: Founding member and Coordinator (2014-2017) of Alma Gender Integreted Research Team.
2013: Abilitazione as Associate Professor of the History
of Science (ASN 2012).
2010-2016: Assistant Professor of the History of Science (Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna).
2009: Founding member of CSGE, Center for Gender and Education Studies (University of Bologna).
2006-: Member of the STEP, the International research group on Science and Tech. in the European Periphery, and of the Steering committee (2006-08).
1991-2021: Member of CIS, the International Centre for the History of Universities and Science at the University of Bologna.
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Education
1993: PhD, University of Florence.
1987: Laurea degree in Philosophy (with honors),
University of Bologna.
Recent and in-progress projects
2019-2022: Enlightened Female Networks: Gendered Ways of Producing Knowledge, eds. E. Serrano (Max Planck institute for the History of Science, Berlin); A. Maerker (Dept. of History, King’s College London); S. Werrett (Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, UCL).
2018-: Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe, University of Leuven.
2017-2020: Alma Idea Project, Non-Fiction Picturebooks: Sharing Knowledge as an Aesthetic Experience, coord. by Giorgia Grilli (University of Bologna).
2016-2020: Women in Mathematics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, eds. Nicola Oswald, Eva Kaufholz- Soldat.
2014-2016:
Irresistible, FP7-Science-in-Society-2013-1, Activity
5.2.2 Young people and science, proj. coord. Jan Apotheker (University of Groningen); local proj. coord. Margherita Venturi (Univ. of Bologna).
2011-2013: Global
Spencerism, coord. by Bernard Lightman (York University).
2012-2013: History of
European Universities, 19th and 20th centuries.
2010-2013: 20th Century
Science Communication in Europe: The Political and Cultural
Context, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin.
2007-2010: European Thematic Network Project ACUME2, Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the
Humanities, project Interfacing.
2006-2009: Popularization of Science in the European Periphery, STEP, Science and Technology in the European Periphery.
Fellowships and grants
2004-07: Research lecturer (assegno di ricerca), Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna.
2002-03: Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of
Science, Harvard University.
2001-2010: Faculty Associate, Faculty of Education, University
of Bologna.
1994-2000: Research associate, University of Bologna.
1993-1995: Postdoc fellowship, University of Bologna.
1992: International Summer School in History of Science, Berkeley.
1990: International Summer School in History of Science, Uppsala.
1989-90: Visiting Fellow, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,
London.
1988-92: PhD fellowship,
University of Florence.
Public Engagement (recent projects)
Exhibition: Women in Balance /Donne in equilibrio (1955-1965), Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, 20 May 2022-18 April 2023 (Section Work and Technical-scientific professions/Lavoro e professioni tecnoscientifiche).
International Day of Women and Girls in Science, intervista per UniBo Public Engagement, 11 febbraio 2022.
Donne e STEM: una storia utile a comprendere che cos’è la scienza e come funziona, I Lincei per la Scuola Fondazione, Polo dell'Università di Firenze.
'Declinazione al femminile dell’educazione scientifica e tecnica e della sua disseminazione', Notte europea dei ricercatori 2021.
La scienza al cinema, 5a edizione, Piano Lauree scientifiche 2021-2022.
Intervista su Storia evoluzionistica: una nuova sintesi
Processo alla ricerca: senza le donne, si può?, Spettacolo teatrale, Ciclo La ricerca in scena, Università di Bologna (11 aprile 2019).