The Scientific Committee of the Luigi Lilio Study Centre brings together scholars of recognised international authority, ensuring methodological rigour, interdisciplinary openness and a European outlook for its research activities.
Chair of the Scientific Committee
Historian of mathematics and the sciences of recognised international authority, with a long career of research devoted to the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences, the history of astronomy and Renaissance technology.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Historical astronomer who, from 2002 to 2026, worked on projects funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft on the history of astronomy, instrument-making and the calendar from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Chemical engineer with a Master's in Neural Networks and a PhD in Physiology, Biophysics and Neuroscience. Professor-Researcher at the Escuela Normal Superior de México and coordinator of the degree programme in Teaching and Learning of Mathematics.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Lecturer and researcher specialising in Italian Renaissance literature and culture. Membre associé of the TrAm laboratory of the Université de Picardie Jules-Verne. Visiting Researcher at the Italienzentrum of the Universität Trier.
Member of the Scientific Committee
A specialist of international renown as a historian of science, she is interested in the evolution of mathematical and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the seventeenth century, with particular attention to its interactions with the humanist revival of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Associate Professor of Latin Palaeography and Diplomatics at the University of Bologna. Scholar of medieval and early modern written culture, with particular attention to the critical edition of documentary sources.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Teacher of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, with a degree in Mathematics from the University of Messina. Science communicator and scholar of STEM teaching, he was selected among the Top 50 finalists of the Global Teacher Prize in 2025.
Member of the Scientific Committee
Electronic engineer specialising in photonics and microwaves, teacher of Automatic Systems and Controls at the Istituto Tecnico Industriale “Enrico Fermi” in Rome. Top 50 finalist of the Global Teacher Prize 2021 and a passionate science communicator.
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