PhD University of Rome "La Sapienza, 2003." Associate Professor. Academic Secretary of the Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History of the Pompeu Fabra University. Member of the editorial board of Medical History (2015 - 2017). He has published on early modern optics, astronomy and the philosophy of science, on the the Italian Higher Institute of Health, and on penicillin in post-war Europe and Japan. He is currently completing a scientific biography of Daniel Bovet.