Academic Presentations
2023 “At the Roots of 17th-Century Geology: Nicolaus Steno from Human Anatomy to Fossils” CSMBR Online Events; May 2023
2022 Discussant in “Mathematics and Empire: Certainty and the Usefulness of Knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Kingdoms, a Roundtable” RSA Virtual 2022
2022 “Galileo and the Church: Facts and Myths”; Trinity College Dublin; September 2022
2022 “The Anatomy of a Conversion”; Villa I Tatti; September 2022
2022 “Experiencing Mechanism: Jean Pecquet, Nicolaus Steno, and Giovanni Borelli on Venous Return,” commented by Antonio Clericuzio; Max Planck Institute for the History; Premodern Sciences Research Colloquium; January 2022.
2021 “Reading the Philosophical Transactions: The English Manuscript Notes of Nicolaus Steno” History of Science Society Meeting 2021; Virtual; November 2021
2021 “Nicolaus Steno on Borelli’s Missing Theory on Blood Circulation,” Borelli, reloaded: Contexts and Networks in Seventeenth Century Italy; Sapienza Università di Roma; September 2021
2021 “Drawing Muscles with Diagrams: Nicolaus Steno’s Myology and his Leiden Years” (with Troels Kardel, MD); Symposium: Unpublished atlases of myology from the Dutch Golden Age; Université de Paris; 18-19 June 2021
2021 “Friendships and the Intellectual Life: The Early Correspondence of Nicolaus Steno in 17th-century Italy;” Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Virtual; April 2021
2021 “How an Anatomist Discovered the Principles of Stratigraphy.” University of Pittsburgh; Department of Geology and Environmental Science; Invited talk; January 2021 [online].
2019 “Amicizia promossa da veleni: la collaborazione tra Niccolò Stenone e Francesco Redi;” ‘Micrologus’ International Congress on ‘Poison. Knowledge, uses, pratices.’ University of Trent; December 2019. [in Italian]
2019 “O matemático que ninguém conhecia: A carreira do Jesuíta Hendrick Uwens de Lisboa até ao Império Mogul depois de 1640;” Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon; Invited talk, November 2019 [in Portuguese]
2019 “Nicolaus Steno’s Arrival in Italy and Mathematics,” International Conference Galilean Foundations for a Solid Earth 1669-2019: 350th anniversary of Nicolaus Steno’s Prodromus; Università degli Studi Firenze; October 2019
2019 “Material Piety: Science and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Portugal;” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto 2019
2018 “Hendrick Uwens and the mathematical backstage of a missionary’s life;” Missionary Orbits workshop: Science and Medicine in the Early Modern World; Johns Hopkins University; Invited talk; April 2018
2017 “Teaching hydrostatics in early-modern Lisbon” International workshop on the history of water management, Lisbon, Portugal; June, 29-30 2017