Bio

Ezio Vaccari is full professor of History of Sciences and Techniques and director of the "Research Center on the History of the Mountains, Material Culture and Earth Sciences" at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy). He is President of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO). He was President of the Italian Society of History of Science from 2018 to 2020. In 2020 he received the Geological Society of America's Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award. His research focus on the history of Earth sciences, history of scientific communication and history of material culture in mountain areas. He worked in Germany (Universität Rostock; Bergakademie Freiberg), Ireland (Trinity College Dublin), Austria (Geologische Bundesanstalt, Wien), France (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris; Université Bordeaux Montaigne), USA (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Boston). He has participated in over 150 conferences and published 4 monographs, as well as 130 essays in journals,books and conference proceedings.

Project

Ezio Vaccari will contribute to the activities of the thematic residency "Earth sciences: history, science and society", interacting with other residents and partecipating to popular and academic events. He will take part to the 18th conference of the Catalan Society of History of Science and he will present a talk on the future challenges of the history of Earth sciences. This is an open research field, with several opportunities of interdisciplinary interactions. The aim of my research project is to demonstrate that the work of the historian of the Earth sciences can be useful for contemporary science and within the society: for example, for supporting the increase of the environmental awareness within the general public.