Francesco Luzzini (PhD, History of Science, University of Bari; BS/MS, Natural Sciences, University of Milan) is Affiliate Scholar in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). His research focuses on natural philosophy, the Earth and environmental sciences, and medicine in early modern Europe, with forays into modern and contemporary contexts. He is Contributing Editor for the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science and Councilor for Earth Sciences History, the journal of the History of Earth Sciences Society. Among his previous positions, he was Mellon Fellow (2020) and Postdoctoral Fellow (2015–2016) at the University of Oklahoma, Visiting Fellow (2016) at MPIWG Berlin, and Research Fellow (2012, 2014) at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City. He taught history of biology, history of geology, and history of medicine at the universities of Milan and East Piedmont.