Matteo Valleriani

Matteo Valleriani is a Principal Investigator (W2) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is also Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Professor by Special Appointment at the University of Tel Aviv, and Principal Investigator at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD). His research focuses on the transformation of scientific, practical, and technological knowledge, with particular attention to the mechanisms of its diffusion and transmission and their entanglement with broader cultural, economic, and political contexts. His work primarily addresses the Hellenistic period, the late Middle Ages, and the early modern era.

Among his major research initiatives, he leads a group within the project "The Sphere: Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe," which investigates the development of cosmological knowledge and the emergence of a shared scientific identity in Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Another important area of his research concerns the epistemic function of visual materials in processes of knowledge transformation.

Valleriani is also a prominent figure in the field of Digital Humanities, integrating methodologies from Complex Systems Theory with the development and application of Machine Learning models and Artificial Intelligence technologies in historical research.