Dr Sabina Leonelli

Biography

I moved from Italy to London in 1997, to undertake a BSc course in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science at the STS Department of University College London. Thanks to my great teachers, those three years had a crucial influence on my intellectual development. After graduation, I earned an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics and I worked as a research assistant to Hasok Chang in the 'Measurement' project at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. I carried out my doctoral research in the Netherlands as part of the project ‘Understanding Scientific Understanding’ based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with Henk de Regt and Hans Radder. From 2002 to 2007, I have served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Graduate Journal of Social Science and I followed the training provided by the WTMC (Netherlands Graduate School for Science, Technology and Modern Culture). Before arriving in Exeter, I worked as a research officer in the Leverhulme/ESRC project ‘How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel?’ based at the Department of Economic History of the London School of Economics and headed by Mary Morgan.

I currently serve on the boards of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice, the plant community GARNet and the journals History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, The Reasoner and Medicina e Storia. I am the co-chair for Recruitment and a member of the Global Policy group of the Global Young Academy. I am also involved in the co-ordination of the UK Network for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (meeting annually), the European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (meeting biannually) and the newly formed network for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Plant Science in the UK (which I founded). I am a member of the Philosophy of Science Association, the European Philosophy of Science Association, the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. I serve as a referee for Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Erkentniss, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Biology and Philosophy, Social Studies of Science, BioSocieties, Poetics, Science, Technology and Human Values, the National Science Foundation, the BBSRC, NWO, the Konrad Lorenz Institute and the Graduate Journal of Social Science.