Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Oldofredi
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Andrea Oldofredi
Citation names
- Oldofredi, Andrea
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- DC17-9B25-C757
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-4379-8027
Websites
- https://unil.academia.edu/AndreaOldofredi (Scholar)
- https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/people/andrea-oldofredi/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2013/11/01 - 2016/11/19
Concluded
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Doctorat ès Lettres (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Particles Creation and Annihilation: Bohmian Approaches. A Metaphysical Inquiry on the Ontology of Quantum Field Theory" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011 - 2013/07/09
Concluded
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Philosophical Methodologies (Master)
Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
"From the Problems of the Copenhagen Formulation of Quantum Mechanics to the Concept of Primitive Ontology" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2008/09/15 - 2011/12/10
Concluded
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Philosophy (Bachelor)
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Italy
"The Issue of Scientific Realism in the Philosophy of L. Laudan: the Argument of the Pessimistic Meta-Induction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2017/11/01 - 2021/10/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021/11/01 - 2027/10/31 | Postdoctoral researcher | Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/11/01 - 2024/10/31 | Understanding Nature: New Insights on the Ontology of Quantum Field Theory
2020.02858.CEECIND
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2017/11/01 - 2021/10 | A philosophical enquiry into a parsimonious ontology of the natural world
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SNSF/Project funding/105212_175971/CH
Post-doc Fellow
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/06/12 | Unexpected Quantum Indeterminacy | Open Problem in Philosophy of Physics
University of Lisbon, Centre of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/05/16 | Orthodox or Dissident? The Evolution of David Bohm's Thoughts on Scientific Realism in the 1950s | Invited talk at the Warsaw University of Technology
Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland)
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| 2022/12/02 | Is Relational Quantum Mechanics still relational? | Lancog Seminars in Analytic Philosophy
University of Lisbon, Centre of Philosophy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2022/11/23 | The Dissolution of the Measurement Problem in Relational Quantum Mechanics | Invited talk ad the Buenos Aires Philosophy of Physics Seminar, University of Buenos Aires
University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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| 2022/08/15 | Relational Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem: A Peaceful Coexistence | Fourth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science
Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2022/06/03 | On the Reality of Quantum State Once Again | Work in Progress Seminar
California Institute of Technology (United States)
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| 2021/09/15 | Relational Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem: A Peaceful Coexistence | EPSA 2021 Biennial Conference (European Philosophy of Science Association)
University of Turin (Turin, Italy)
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| 2021/06/25 | Relational Quantum Mechanics and the PBR Theorem: A Peaceful Coexistence | Rediscovering Relational Quantum Mechanics
Université de Geneve (Geneve, Switzerland)
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| 2021/06/01 | On the Meaning of the Wave Function: Ettore Majorana’s Lectures Notes on Theoretical Physics | Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
University of Alberta (Alberta, Canada)
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| 2020/10/27 | The Bundle Theory Approach to Relational Quantum Mechanics | Work in Progress Seminar
Université de Geneve (Geneve, Switzerland)
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| 2020/10/21 | On the Classification between $\psi$-Ontic and $\psi$-Epistemic Ontological Models | Work in Progress Seminar
California Institute of Technology (United States)
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| 2019/09/13 | An Internal Realist Interpretation of the Primitive Ontology Programme | EPSA 2019 Biennial Conference (European Philosophy of Science Association)
Université de Geneve (Geneve, Switzerland)
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| 2019/06/05 | An Internal Realist Interpretation of the Primitive Ontology Programme | SILFS 4th Postgraduate Conference (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza)
Università di Urbino (Urbino, Italy)
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| 2019/05/14 | Is Quantum Mechanics Self-Interpreting? | Invited Lecture
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2019/02/03 | Particle Identification through Time of Flight Measurements: Testing Bell’s Hypothesis on Position Observations in Quantum Physics | Third International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science
University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
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| 2018/09/07 | Is there a Structural Correspondence between Phlogiston Theory and Contemporary Chemistry? | SIFA Annual Conference (Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica)
University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro (Novara, Italy)
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| 2018/08/23 | Comments on “Ontological Fundamentality” | Society for the Metaphysics of Science Conference
University of Milan (Milan, Italy)
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| 2018/03/23 | Primitive Ontology and internal realism | Essentialism and realism in the metaphysics of science
Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Swaziland)
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| 2017/11/30 | An interpretation without interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Is it possible? | Understanding Quantum Mechanics
Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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| 2017/06/21 | Problems with Statistics: how do we choose the relevant population in our studies? | SILFS Triennal International Conference (Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza)
University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
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| 2017/06/06 | Primitive Ontology and Empiricism | Work in Progress Seminar
University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/06/30 | On the current status of Bohmian Quantum Field Theories | Societé Philosophie des Science Annual Conference
Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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| 2016/06/30 | Bohmian approaches to Quantum Field Theory | Internal Seminar
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
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| 2016/03/01 | Particles creation and annihilation: a Bohmian approach | Deutschen Physicalischen Gesellschaft Conference
University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
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| 2016/02/15 | Elements and Compounds. A discussion of R. Hendry’s micro-structuralism | EPILOG Seminar
University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)
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| 2015/10/19 | Locality and Localizability in Quantum Field Theory | Seminario Linguaggi Mente e Scienza (Limes)
University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro (Vercelli, Italy)
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| 2015/04/16 | Particle ontologies extended to Quantum Field Theory | Work in Progress Seminar
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (Munich, Germany)
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| 2015/04/11 | A particle must be somewhere! Particle localization and position operators | First Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (Munich, Germany)
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| 2015/03/06 | Mathematical Explanations in Physics | Invited lecture at the University of Genoa
University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)
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| 2015/02/02 | Introduction to Bohmian Mechanics | Invited lecture at the University of Stuttgart
University of Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)
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| 2014/05/02 | Bohmian Quantum Field Theory and Malament no go Theorem | The Quantum State as the Memory of a Quantum System
université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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| 2014/01/28 | Primitive Ontology | CanDoc Colloquium
CUSO (Ovronnaz, Switzerland)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2021/11/01 - 2022/04/13 | Localizability and the occurrence of events in dissipative quantum field theory
Co-supervisor of Amine Rusi El Hassani
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Theoretical Physics (Master)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/10/11 - 2033/12/15 | I co-organized (with Davide Romano and Antonio Vassallo) the first edition of the "Lisbon-Warsaw Reading Group in Philosophy
of Physics" for the fall semester of the academic year 2023-2024. We invited leading experts in the foundations of physics
in order to speak about their work (2023/10/11 - 2023/12/15)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal Politechnika Warszawska, Poland |
| 2023/04/12 - 2023/06/14 | I organized the third edition of the Lisbon Philosophy of Physics seminars for the spring semester of the academic year 2022-2023.
I invited leading experts in the foundations of physics in order to speak about their work. Notable speakers: Wayne Myrvold
(Western Ontatio), Olimpia Lombardi (Buenos Aires), Peter Morgan (Yale), Mauro Dorato (Rome). (2023/04/12 - 2023/06/14)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
| 2022/09/28 - 2022/12/21 | I organized the second edition of the Lisbon Philosophy of Physics seminars for the fall semester of the academic year 2022-2023.
I invited leading experts in the foundations of physics in order to speak about their work. Notable speakers: Sabine Hossenfelder
(MCMP), Jill North (Rutgers), Angelo Bassi (Trieste), Elise Crull (CUNY), Jean Bricmont (Louvain), Karen Crowther (Oslo). (2022/09/28 - 2022/12/21)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
| 2022/10/12 - 2022/10/12 | The workshop "70 Years of Bohm's pilot-wave theory" is a celebration of the 70th year of David Bohm's papers "A suggested
interpretation of the quantum theory in terms of hidden variables Part I & II" published in January 1952 in the prestigious
Physical Review. I invited six scholars in order to analyze the current state of the art concerning the pilot-wave theory
from different perspectives (historical philosophical and physical). (2022/10/12 - 2022/10/12)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
| 2022/05/11 - 2022/06/22 | I created and organized the online series Lisbon Philosophy of Physics Seminars. These events are weekly meetings in which
I invite different speakers, who are leading philosophers of physics, in order to speak about their works in the foundations
of physics (both quantum and spacetime). Notable Speakers: Hans Christian Öttinger (ETH Zürich), Antonio Vassallo (Warsaw),
Baptiste Le Bihan (Geneva). (2022/05/11 - 2022/06/22)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal |
| 2022/06/15 - 2022/06/15 | I co-organized the one-day workshop "On time in the foundations of Physics" with Dr. Cristian Lopez (University of Lausanne).
This online event discussed the different roles and notions that time has in different physical theories, from non-relativistic
quantum mechanics to quantum gravity. This is the list of invited speakers: Gabriele Carcassi (Michigan), Siddhant Das (LMU
Munich), Francesca Vidotto (Western Ontario), Emily Adlam (Western Ontatio), Eugene Chua (California) (2022/06/15 - 2022/06/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Filosofia, Portugal Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2021/06/25 - 2021/06/25 | 2021 - 25th June: Organizer of the workshop Rediscovering Relational Quantum Mechanics, (with Claudio
Calosi and Cristian Mariani) (2021/06/25 - 2021/06/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Université de Genève Département de Philosophie, Switzerland |
| 2018/11/29 - 2018/11/30 | In November 2018 I co-organized the workshop “New Topics in Quantum Foundations” with D. Lazarovici and M. Esfeld at the University
of Lausanne. We invited young researches experts in quantum foundations (C. Calosi, K. Crowther, M. Egg, A. Tilloy and A.
Vassallo among others) to discuss new research topics in the metaphysics of quantum theory. (2018/11/29 - 2018/11/30)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2015/07/20 - 2015/07/25 | I coordinated the Discussion Group "Ontology and Quantum Field Theory", at the 3rd International Summer School in Philosophy
of Physics: Ontology in Physics, 20 - 25 July 2015, Saig, Germany (with Ward Struyve, Brian Padden)
Conference
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Summer School in Philosophy of Physics: Ontology in Physics
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany |
| 2014/07/28 - 2014/07/30 | I attended the "Summer School on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics dedicated to John Bell. From 28-30 July 2014, Sesto
(Italy)." in Sexten, Italy
Conference
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Summer School on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics dedicated to John Bell
Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Italy
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| 2014/07/28 - 2014/07/30 | I coordinated the Discussion Group on Bohmian Mechanics and the Quantum Formalism at the Summer School on the Foundations
of Quantum Mechanics 28 - 30 July 2014, Sexten, Italy (with Damiano Marian)
Conference
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Summer school on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Italy
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| 2014/07/21 - 2014/07/26 | I coordinated the Discussion Group On the Nature of Probabilities in Bohmian Mechanics, at the 2nd International Summer School
in Philosophy of Physics: Probabilities in Physics, 21 - 26 July 2014, Saig, Germany (with Antonio Vassallo, Davide Romano)
Conference
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Summer School in Philosophy of Physics: Probabilities in Physics
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany |
| 2014/03/26 - 2014/04/04 | I attended the Spring School "Particle Physics and Philosophy" at the University of Wuppertal (Germany)
Conference
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2nd International Spring School on Particle Physics and Philosophy
Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
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| 2013/07/29 - 2013/07/31 | I attended the Summer school "Quantum Theory Without Observers" in Sexten, Italy
Conference
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Summer school Quantum Theory Without Observers
Sexten Center for Astrophysics, Italy
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| 2013/07/23 - 2013/07/28 | I attended the Summer School: Physics and Philosophy of Time, Saig (Germany)
Conference
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Summer School: Physics and Philosophy of Time, Saig (Germany)
Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
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| 2013/04/22 - 2013/04/25 | I attended the conference "Quantum Theory without Observers III - 49 years of non-locality" in Bielefeld Germany
Conference
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Quantum Theory without Observers III - 49 years of non-locality
Universität Bielefeld Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Germany
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| 2012/09/19 - 2012/09/24 | I attended the Workshop: Turing Celebrations, the Nature of the Artificial, Cesena (Italy) dedicated to Alan Turing and organized
by the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Conference
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Workshop: Turing Celebrations, the Nature of the Artificial, Cesena (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2017/06/21 - Current | SILFS ((Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza) | Member |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2023/07/03 - 2023/07/05 | First International Colloquium Emergence and Time | Universidade Catolica Portuguesa |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2014/10/01 - Current | During the doctoral years I visited several European institutions: the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (with Prof. S. Hartmann), the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Cambridge (with Prof. J. Butterfield) and the Max Plank Institute for the History of Science (with Dr. Alex Blum). Finally, during the Spring term in 2017 I visited the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College) under the supervision of Prof. Anna Marmodoro. More recently, in 2019 I visited the ETH working with H.C. Öttinger. | |
| 2014/09/01 - Current | I have been referee for the following Journals, Societies and Conferences: - The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science - Philosophy of Science - Erkenntnis - Synthese - European Journal for Philosophy of Science - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science - Foundations of Physics - Foundations of Science - Scientific Reports - Journal for General Philosophy of Science - International Journal of Theoretical Physics - Entropy - The Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science - Philosophies - Symmetry - Perspectives |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2019/09/15 - 2020/06/01 | 2019-2020 | Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Science (Master) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland |
| 2018/09/15 - 2019/06/01 | 2018-2019 | Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Science (Master) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2015/09/15 - 2016/06/01 | 2015-2016 | Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Science (Master) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2015/09/15 - 2015/12/20 | 2015-2016 | Séminaire Master Philosophie des Sciences (Master) | Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2014/09/15 - 2015/06/01 | 2014-2015 | Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Science (Master) | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2014/10/01 - 2015/01/15 | 2014-2015 | The Ontology of Physics (Master) | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2021/09/01 - 2023/09/01 | Symmetry (2073-8994) | MDPI |