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I am a historian of science and philosophy in the early modern period, with a focus on the eighteenth century.

I work as a postdoc at the Université libre de Bruxelles in the framework of the EOS project RENEW18. After completing my PhD at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris and the University of Bologna in 2018, I have been a postdoc at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in the framework of the ERC project Early Modern Cosmology (2019-20), and a postdoc at the University of Neuchâtel in the framework of the SNSF project Mesure du temps, chimie et cuisine (2020-23).

My research focuses on two main areas. As an intellectual historian, I study the circulation of knowledge in the early French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century controversies on natural philosophy – particularly those originated by the diffusion of Newtonian theories in Europe – and the history of scientific academies. As a historian of scientific practice and of material culture, I am interested in the birth of an experimental culture in the early modern age, the knowledge embedded in object construction and use, and scientific practice in the household.

To find out more about my research, you might read this page.