Matteo Valleriani

Valleriani

Matteo Valleriani is fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) where he is coordinator of the project area “Mental Models in the History of Knowledge: The Relation of Practical Experience and Conceptual Structures in the Emergence of Science.” Matteo Valleriani’s research interests include projects on ‘Professional Knowledge of the Practitioners’ (MPIWG), ‘History of Shipbuilding and Architecture’ (MPIWG), and ‘Jesuits on Statics, Dynamics, Mathematics and Astronomy between Galileo and Newton’ (University of Tel Aviv and MPIWG). Within Topoi, Mateo Valleriani heads the Cross-Sectional Group III “Technology Transfer in Antiquity”.
 

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A detailed description of the research projects, publications, talks, and teaching activities can be found at Matteo Valleriani's personal website at the MPIWG.
 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Records
1993 Course of study at the European School of Logic at the University of Constance
1997 University Degree at the University of Bologna in Philosophy of Science (110/110 cum laude). Prof. A. Artosi
1997-1999 Free collaboration with Prof. Silvio Bergia, Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Bologna
1998 Scholarship at the University of Padua for post-graduated specialization
1998-2000 Project assistant at the Max Planck for the History of Science of Berlin.
Project: History of Mechanics
2001 The 4th International Laboratory for the History of Science: Art, Science and Techniques of Drafting in the Renaissance (Florence and Vinci, 24 May – 1 June 2001)
2001 – 2008 PhD Student at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Disputatio: the Humboldt University. November 4, 2008: Summa cum laude)
2002 Summer school in the History of Science, Paris, September 2002
02-05/2009 Visiting scholar at the Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
10/2010- Coordinator of Cross-Sectional Group III “Technology Transfer in Antiquity” at the Excellence Cluster Topoi
Awards
1998 Carlo D’Amelio Award in Philosophy of Science. Department of Philosophy of the University of Naples “Federico II”
2007 International Museum Communication Award 2007 (3rd position) for the virtual Exhibition. Einstein – Ingenieur des Universums (Co-Author)
2010 Marc-Auguste Pictet Prize Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle of Geneva