Prof. Dr. Matteo Valleriani
Curriculum Vitae
- Max Planck Ins4tute for the History of Science
- Technische Universit.t Berlin
- University of Tel Aviv
Boltzmannstr. 22. 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Telefon.: +49 30 22 667 128 / Mobile: +49 151 1475 40 99
E-mail: valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Born in Ferrara, Italy. June 28, 1972
Married with children.
Languages
Latin, English, German, Italian (Mother Tongue), scholastic French.
Position
05/2018 – to date
Professor for Special Appointment (Digital Humanities) at the University of Tel Aviv,
Faculty of Humanities.
09/2017 – to date
Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität Berlin.
12/2011 – to date
Senior Research Fellow and Research Group Leader (W2) at the Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Dept. I, Berlin.
Present projects
The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe (Link).
Images in Science.
Machine Learning applied to the analysis of Early Modern corpora of European university textbooks (in the frame of the Berlin Center for Machine Learning, financed by the BMBF-opening).
Digital humanities & Computational History:
– Creation and development of an electronic environment for the Publication of Historical Sources in Open Access Modality (EOS) www.edition-opensources.org
– Development of mathematical models in the frame of network theory for the use in History Writing (in collaboration with the Complex Multilayer Network Lab of the Foundation Bruno Kessler).
– Linked Open Data.
– Computer-based semantic analysis of text corpora (in collaboration with the DH dept. of the Foundation Bruno Kessler – Sara Tonelli).
Past projects
Galileo Engineer.
Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Shipbuilding.
Pratolino: Science and Technology in a Garden.
Ancient Water Technology.
Mapping of Water Technology (Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Project A-3-3).
The Structures of Practical Knowledge.
Editorial work
Editor-in-Chief of Edition Open Sources (www.edition-open-sources.org).
Editor of SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology.
Contributing Editor of the Journal Technology and Culture.
Advisory Editor of the Journal HOST, DeGruyter.
Editor of the Section “Natural Philosophy, Natural History and Technology” of the “Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy” (Springer Nature).
2015 – 2017
Advisory Editor of the Journal Isis.
Academic records
2018
Nomination to Professor for Special Appointment Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities.
2017
Nomination to Honorary Professorship in History of Science Technische Universität Berlin.
2017
Guest professorship University of Bucharest, Romania.
2016
Elected Member of the German National Commigee DHST-IUHPS.
2016
Guest Professorship Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015
Guest Professorship Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
2014
Silverman Professorship, Cohn Institute, University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
2012–to date
Coordinator of the PhD candidates of Dept. 1 at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
12/2011–to date
Research Group Leader (W2) at Dept. I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
04/2011–11/2011
Permanent Research Fellow in Dept. I at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
02/2011
Call to a tenure track position in history of early modern science at Princeton University (declined).
02/2009–05/2009
Visiting scholar at the Dept. of History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (DAAD Fellowship).
2002–2008
PhD Student at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Disputatio: Humboldt University, November 4, 2008: Summa cum laude).
09/2002
Summer school in the History of Science, Paris.
05/2001
The 4th International Laboratory for the History of Science: Art, Science and Techniques of Drafting in the Renaissance (Florence and Vinci).
1998–2000
Project assistant at the Max Planck for the History of Science of Berlin. Project: History of Mechanics.
1998
Scholarship at the University of Padua for post-graduated specialization.
1997–1999
Free collaboration with Prof. Silvio Bergia, Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Bologna.
1997
University Degree at the University of Bologna in Philosophy of Science (110/110 cum laude), Prof. A. Artosi.
1993
Course of study at the European School of Logic at the University of Constance.
Exhibitions
2016
Images don’t lie (?). University of Tel Aviv. (Project Leader).
2013
Archimede e la nascita della scienza in Europa. Musei Capitolini, Roma. (Member of the Curatorial Team).
2011
The Antichytera Mechanism. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
2007
Pratolino – The History of Science in a Garden. Virtual Exhibition in coopera4on with the Ente Provincia of Florence. hgp://pratolino.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
2005
Einstein – Chief Engineer of the Universe (Berlin, 16.05.2005 – 30.09.2005). Virtual Exhibition: Chief Engineer of the Universe. hgp://www.einsteinausstellung.de
University of Pavia (Italy), Dep. of Physics “A. Volta”. Travel Exhibition: Einstein ingegnere dell’universo.
Organization of International Workshops & Conferences
10/2018
Conference (together with Prof. Dr. Giulia Giannini): The Epistemic Functions of Vision in Science.
Università degli Studi di Bergamo & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Venue: Bergamo.
06/2018
Workshop: Semantic Analysis of Historical Texts by Means of Tools from the Computational Linguistics Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
04/2018
Workshop: Multilayered Networks and Diffusion of Knowledge Innovations Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
02/2018–to date
Working Group: The Authors of the Early Modern Commentaries of the treatise De Sphaera of Johannes Sacrobsoco. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
10/2017
Conference: The Mathematics Beyond Digital Humanities. University of Bucharest (together with Dana Jalobeanu).
11/2016
Workshop (together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve): Pragma4c and Practical Knowledge and Literature.
Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (venue).
10/2012–03/2017
Working Group: The Structures of Practical Knowledge. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
10/2012
Conference (together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn and Dr. Helge Wendt): The Globalization of Knowledge in the Mediterranean World of Post-Antiquity.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
09/2012–06/2012
Series of eleven international colloquia with the title “Practical Knowledge”.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
08/2012
Workshop: Aristotelisierung der Antike.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and in collaboration with the Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Berlin.
12/2008
Workshop: The Patent System in Renaissance Italy: XV and XVI Centuries.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
2007
Workshop: The Reception of Hero’s Pneumatics during the XVI Century:
Giovanbattista della Porta.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin in the frame of the project CRC 644: Transformations of Antiquity.
2007
Galilean Lectures. Berlin Edition 2007.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin in collabora4on with the Museo Galileo, Florence.
2006
Workshop: Transferring Technical Knowledge and Innovating in Europe, c.1200-c.1800.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin in the frame of the project CRC 644: Transformations of Antiquity.
2001
Workshop: Shipbuilding Practice and Ship Design Methods from the Renaissance to the XVIII Century.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (with Dirk Wintergrün).
Awards & memberships
2018–to date
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Cardinale Francesco Maria del Monte, Rome.
2016–2018
PR-Officer of the European Society for the History of Science and Technology.
2016–to date
Member of the European Society for the History of Science.
2015–to date
Member of the Association “Friend of the Villa Vigoni”.
2014
Elected Member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, Paris.
2014
Silverman Professorship. The Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. University of Tel Aviv, Israel.
2011
Paul-Bunge-Preis Hans Jenemann Stiwung. Gesellschaw Deutscher Chemiker.
2010
Marc-Auguste Pictet Prize Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle of Geneva.
2007
International Museum Communication Award 2007 (3rd position) for the virtual Exhibition. Einstein – Ingenieur des Universums (co-author).
1998
Carlo D’Amelio Award in Philosophy of Science. Department of Philosophy of the University of Naples “Federico II”.
Voluntary work
11/2013-12/2016
Chief executive of the “Verein der Freunde des Goethe Gymnasiums Berlin e.V.,” Berlin, Germany.
11/2012–11/2013
Member of the Executive Committee of the “Verein der Freunde des Goethe Gymnasiums Berlin e.V.,” Berlin, Germany.
09/2008–03/2010
Chief executive of parent-teacher association “L’Angolino,” supporting organization of the Italian-German Kindergarten “L’Angolino,” Ansbacher Str. 41, 10777, Berlin, Germany.