RAFFAELE PISANO (Italy, 1970) is a full physicist in Physics/Mathematics and its History. He studied at the Federico II Napoli University (Italy) and PhD at the La Sapienza Roma University (Italy). He awarded his Habilis (HDR–Accreditation to Supervise Research) at Philosophy, history of sciences Poincaré centre, Lorraine University, France. He is currently Full Professor (1st Cl.) Lille University, France (& additional responsibility as faculty member) and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer (ISEPP, Portland State University, USA). I served (2011-2023) as elected Vice President and President of the Interdivision Teaching Commission (DLMPST/DHST)
RAFFAELE PISANO (Italy, 1970) is a full physicist in Physics/Mathematics and its History. He studied at the Federico II Napoli University (Italy) and PhD at the La Sapienza Roma University (Italy). He awarded his Habilis (HDR–Accreditation to Supervise Research) at Philosophy, history of sciences Poincaré centre, Lorraine University, France. He is currently Full Professor (1st Cl.) Lille University, France (& additional responsibility as faculty member) and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer (ISEPP, Portland State University, USA). I served (2011-2023) as elected Vice President and President of the Interdivision Teaching Commission (DLMPST/DHST)
2000s-: Referee/Expert/Evaluator: Book reviewer for several international journals and publishers; plus ERC, et al., HORIZON-EU, COST, applications from several countriesReferee 2022-2025 et 2025-. Elected (twice) Steering Board Member of the Physics Department, FST, University of Lille 2024.- Elected Steering Board Member (Council) of the British Society for the History of Matematics (BSHM) 2024-. Collaboration with Vice-President University of Lille, Valorisation and science-society link/History of Science, within the framework of the Science With and For Society label-Awarded by the MESR 2023-2024 Member of University Evaluation Committee for HCERES 2023.- Elected Member of the French National CNU Sect. 72 (Epistemology, History of Science and Techniques) 2023.- Elected Member of the Steering Board of the Institut Eric Weil, University of Lille 2023- Digital Library Expert Committee Member, Lillonum-Lilliad, University of Lille 2022- Elected Academic Corresponding Member of the University of Roma La Sapienza international Network 2022.- Elected Steering Board Member as Representative of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Council Libraries & Learning Center, University of Lille 2011-2023 Elected V-President and President of the Interdivision Teaching Commission (DLMPST/DHST) | History of Science & Nature of Science Teaching (NoS) 2020- Head of the History of Physics and Applied Science & Technologies (HOPAST) international team at the IEMN, Lille University, France https://www.iemn.fr/la-recherche/les-groupes/physique/hopast 2019-2022. Elected Member of the COREI - International Commission of the Lille University, France. Interview & Video provided by University of Lille Prof. Raffaele Pisano - University of Lille, Video
Former head (2011-2013) of the Research Centre for the Theory and History of Science (West Bohemia–Plzen University, Czech Republic); elected ESHS–officer (2006–2012). Affiliated at HPS Unit, Sydney University, Australia (2015-2019). University qualifications (CNU [72, 17], MIUR [MCF B2/02–FIS/08; 11/C2; 02/A2]): History–epistemology of science and technique, Philosophy, History of physics–Didactics of physics, Logics–History/Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, Theoretical physics and fundamental interactions.
After a post-lauream School of Specialisation for theory and Physics/Mathematics Teaching (SICSI, Federico II University, a.y. 2001/02-2002/03) and related 4 Lyceum School Teaching Qualifications (cert-agr.) at the MIUR & SICSI, Federico II University [A038, A049, A047, A048) Physics, Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics, Applied mathematics, I got my Ph.D. (La Sapienza Roma University, Italy) in History of mechanics and epistemology–architecture, teaching topics. I am known for my international research, organizing (i.e. Lille International Summer Schools for Sciences, History and Philosophy of Sciences, Technology & Science Education).
261 publications (plus pre-print | All works via HAL: 448) in History of Physics (physics/mathematics), History of Quantum Physics, Logic and epistemology of science, NoS, Foundations of Science, Historical reflection on the science impact in the society. Springer co–author: Lazare and Sadi Carnot (2014 with Charles Gillispie, Princeton, USA). Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in Sixteenth–Century (2016). Springer Editor: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks, Science, Society and Technology Studies (2015). Galileo’s Iuvenilia works (Phil. Scientae, special issue, with Paolo Bussotti, 2017). Homage to Koyré (Springer, with Joseph Agassi and Draria Drozdova, 2017). Homage to Leibniz (with Michel Fichant, Agamenon Oliveira and Paolo Bussotti, London College Publications, 2017). Lazare Carnot's Mechanics. Vol. 1. Essay on Machines in General (Springer, 2021). Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights (Springer, 2024, with Dhombres, Radelet de Grave and Bussotti). Pre-print: Geneva Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (5 vols. Oxford University Press, with Paolo Bussotti); Galileo Galilei: The Two Manuscripts On Mechanics. Translations, Text and Commentaries (Springer); English Critical Translation of Lazare Carnot's main Mechanical Works (Vol. 2 and Vol. 3: 1803, 1803; Springer).