Giulia Giannini is Full Professor of History of Science in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Milan. Her research interests focus on the history of science and its institutions in the early modern period, with particular interest for the history of experimentation, for circulation of knowledge and skills, for the cultural, political and social dimension of scientific activities. She has worked at the University of Bergamo, the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris, the Paris Observatory (SYRTE department: SYstèmes de Référence Temps Espace – Time Space Reference Systems) and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where she was a Humboldt Fellow. She was principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator research project TACITROOTS – The Accademia del Cimento in Florence: tracing the roots of the European scientific enterprise (GA n. 818098).
Among her recent publications, she is co-editor, with Matteo Valleriani, of Scientific Visual Representations in History (Springer, 2023) and author of Un volto ritrovato. Michelangelo Ricci e la costruzione di un’identità scientifica nella Roma del Seicento (Ad Fontes, 2026).