My main academic interests are in the Philosophy and History of Science, and at the intersection between the Medical Humanities and artistic practices. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Research Group in History and Philosophy of Medicine at Bielefeld University, where I am also a member of the Institute for the Interisciplinary Studies of Science. My current research focuses on the philosophy and history of measurement in the biomedical and human sciences, on evolutionary models of the relationship between scientific theories and values, and on the application of performative methods and notions of performativity to the study of…
My main academic interests are in the Philosophy and History of Science, and at the intersection between the Medical Humanities and artistic practices. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Fellow within the Research Group in History and Philosophy of Medicine at Bielefeld University, where I am also a member of the Institute for the Interisciplinary Studies of Science. My current research focuses on the philosophy and history of measurement in the biomedical and human sciences, on evolutionary models of the relationship between scientific theories and values, and on the application of performative methods and notions of performativity to the study of scientific and medical practices.
Before this, I studied Philosophy at the University of Milan and at the Central European University in Budapest, where I obtained my PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on the notion of constitutive principles in scientific practice.
In 2017-18, I was a DAAD-funded Visiting Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the LMU Munich, where I also conducted archival research on Georg Ohm's laboratory notes at the Deutsches Museum. In 2020-21, I was a Swiss Government Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Geneva, where I worked on the relationship between nineteenth-century craniological measurement and views of intelligence. From 2022 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin (Research Group: "Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences”), where I worked on how validation was enacted before the emergence of methodological discussions on validity, particularly in the psychophysical research of Gustav Theodor Fechner.
On top of my academic interests, I keep developing my activities as a theatre practitioner, researcher and instructor. My artistic research focuses on theatre practice and pedagogy as tools to explore the connections between (scientific) knowledge, ritual, and society from an embodied perspective. Since 2021, I have been conducting several theatre workshops that take inspiration from the scientific imagery, an I have collaborated as a theatre educator with several institutions in the academic, social, and healthcare sectors. In the spirit of integration, I believe it is crucial to invent and foster new forms of engagement between science, philosophy and society. These include novel teaching formats and creative interactions in the classroom and in the public sphere with pedagogical, social, and self-reflecting purposes, particularly by using powerful alternative tools as theatre laboratories.
