giuditta parolini
Office address: Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Sekretariat H72
Straße des 17 Juni, 135
10623 Berlin
Germany
email: giudittaparolini@gmail.com; giuditta.parolini@campus.tu-berlin.de
CV updated till December 2014
education
May 2013 PhD in Science, Technology and Humanities
University of Bologna
Thesis title “Making Sense of Figures”: Statistics, Computing and Information Technologies in Agriculture and Biology in Britain, 1920s-1960s [in English].
Final mark Passed
November 2009 MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Imperial College London and University College London
Dissertation title DNA Goes Digital: Computers, Models and Visualization Strategies for Proteins and Nucleic Acids [in English].
Final mark Distinction
November 2005 Master in Science Communication
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
Dissertation title One Hundred Years Fermi: Communicating Science with Radio Drama [in Italian].
Final mark 30/30 e Lode (Top grade and Distinction)
March 2003 Laurea (BSc) in Theoretical Physics
University of Pavia
Dissertation title Lie Algebras and Conformal Field Theory [in Italian].
Final mark 110/110 e Lode (Top grade and Distinction)
July 1997 Maturità Classica [secondary school degree]
Liceo Classico Paolo Sarpi, Bergamo, Italy
Main subjects studied Italian literature, Latin, Ancient Greek, Philosophy, History, Art History, Mathematics, Physics.
Final mark 60/60 e Lode (Top grade and Distinction)
Academic appointments
- Technische Universität, Berlin, August 2013 – July 2016
Postdoctoral fellow, Technische Universität Berlin and Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte. Research project: “Uncovering statistical knowledge in experimental research”.
- University of Bologna, Bologna, January 2010 – May 2013
PhD student in the history of science and technology. Areas of expertise: history of statistics, computing and information technologies in twentieth century Britain.
- International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, November 2005 – July 2006
Researcher in science communication sponsored by the Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Foundation.
presentations
Oct. 2014 “Farming, meteorology and field experiments: using statistics to improve agricultural practices”, “The making of useful knowledge” workshop, Berlin.
Sept. 2014 “Statistical expertise in agricultural research”, Science and Technology in the European Periphery Meeting, Lisbon.
July 2014 “The role of statistics in field experiments”, British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, St. Andrews.
May 2014 “From computing girls to data processors: women computers in the Rothamsted statistics department”, Women, Gender and Information and Communication Technologies, Institute for Communication Sciences (ISCC, CNRS), Paris.
April 2014 “Using oral history to research software packages and electronic archives in statistics”, WISRNet Workshop on Using Oral History to Reveal Hidden Stories, Kingston University London.
December 2013 “W. G. Cochran’s Catalogue of Uniformity Trial Data”, Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Technische Universität Berlin.
October 2012 “The Computerization of the Rothamsted Statistics Department”, SIGCIS Workshop, Copenhagen.
October 2012 “The Politics of the Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research, SHOT Conference, Copenhagen.
March 2012 “Weather, Crop Yields and Crop Forecasting”, Workshop on Science, Technology and Livelihood Systems, University of Bologna.
November 2011 “Making and Remaking the Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research”, History and Philosophy of Computing Conference, Gent.
October 2011 “R. A. Fisher and the Emergency Transfusion Services in WWII”, Seminar held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
July 2011 “Analysis of Variance, Experimental Design and the Reshaping of Research at Rothamsted Experimental Station”, British Society for the History of Science Conference, Exeter.
March 2011 “Computing and statistics in agriculture and biology in the UK, 1920s-1960s”, Symposium on Agricultural and Medical Genetics, University of Exeter.
December 2010 “ANOVA, experimental design and the shaping of the lab-field border in agriculture and biology”, CIS University of Bologna.
January 2009 “Manufacturing a Mainframe. Olivetti Elea 9003: a Case of Research, Retail, Reshape”, British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, Manchester.
September 2008 “Olivetti Elea 9003: Between Scientific Research and Computer Business”, World Computer Congress, Milan.
publications
----- Parolini, Giuditta (guest editor) Special issue on experimentation in 20th century agricultural science for the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
2016 Parolini, Giuditta (2016) From computing girls to data processors: women assistants in the Rothamsted Statistics Department. Contribution for the book Women, Gender and ICT in Europe (Springer International Publishing), edited by Valérie Schafer and Benjamin Thierry.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (forthcoming) Mario Tchou: Ricerca e Sviluppo per l’elettronica Olivetti [trade book in Italian]. Milano: Egea.
2014 Parolini, Giuditta (2014) The emergence of modern statistics in agricultural science: analysis of variance, experimental design and the reshaping of research at Rothamsted Experimental Station, 1919-1933, Journal of the History of Biology, DOI: 10.1007/s10739-014-9394-z.
2014 Parolini, Giuditta (2014) Review of Charles N. Yood, Hybrid Zone: Computers and Science at Argonne National Laboratory 1946-1992, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 36, No. 3: 91-92.
2013 Parolini, Giuditta (2013) Review of Paul Ceruzzi, Computing: A Concise History, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 35, No. 4: 87-88.
2008 Parolini, Giuditta (2008) Olivetti Elea 9003: Between Scientific Research and Computer Business. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Vol. 269; History of Computing and Education 3. Edited by John Impagliazzo. Boston: Springer: 37-53.
organisation of conference sessions, workshops, reading groups
2014 “Experiments in 20th century agricultural science”, two-session panel held during the British Society for the History of Science Conference, St. Andrews, 4 July 2014.
2014 (with Thomas Morel and Cesare Pastorino) Workshop “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, MPIWG Berlin, 30-31 October 2014. Workshop sponsored by the Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte.
2014 (with Thomas Morel and Cesare Pastorino) Reading group “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, Technische Universität Berlin, February-June 2014.
non-academic appointments
- Galileo Servizi Editoriali, Rome, January 2007 – July 2008
Press officer of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) www.infm.it.
International conferences covered as press officer: Statphys 23; EP2DS 17-MSS 13.
- Science Festival “Apriamo la Mente” organized by Regione Lazio, Rome, May 2008
Press officer.
- Institute of the Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani, Rome, 2004 – 2008
Author and editor consultant for the Enciclopedia dei Ragazzi (children’s encyclopaedia); consultant for the scientific revision of physics and mathematics lemmas in the Enciclopedia Treccani in tre volumi; managing editor and author for the web dossier on the physics of matter “Tutti i volti della Materia”; managing co-editor for the web dossier on energy “L’energia: scelte, consumi, sprechi”.
- Edumond – Le Monnier, Milan, September – October 2007
Consultant for editorial projects.
- Zanichelli, Bologna, 2005 – 2007
Consultant for the physics textbook Amaldi.
- CM Sistemi, Rome, October 2005 – October 2006
Ontologist in the R&D Division.
- Avverbi Edizioni, Rome, 2004 – 2005
Editor and press officer.
- Galileo Servizi Editoriali, Rome, June 2004 – December 2006
Freelance science writer for Italian magazines, websites and newspapers (Galileo www.galileonet.it, l’Unità, l’Espresso, Airone, La Macchina del Tempo, Sapere).
- Cepu, Bergamo, May 2003 – July 2003
Teacher of physics and mathematics.
it and language skills
IT: Word, Pages, Power Point, Excel, OpenOffice, X-Press.
English: International English Language Testing System (IELTS): overall band score 8.
German: A1 level.
French (reading comprehension only): basic skills.
Latin and Ancient Greek: basic translation skills.
awards
- British Society for the History of Science £500 research grant (May 2014)
- Three-year post-doctoral fellowship, Technische Universität Berlin and Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte (August 2013-July 2016)
- Pre-doctoral fellowship, Max Planck Society (January 2013-February 2013)
- Michael Mahoney Travel Award 2012, sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) within the Society for the History of Technology
- Conference Travel Grant, Society for the History of Technology (2012)
- Butler-Eyles Travel Grant, British Society for the History of Science (2011)
- Marco Polo Scholarship, University of Bologna (2010)
- PhD Scholarship in Science, Technology and Humanities, University of Bologna (2010-2012)
- British Society for the History of Science Master’s Bursary (2008/2009)
- University College London Science & Technology Studies MSc Scholarship (2008/2009)
- Scholarship in Science Communication (Premio Alberto Cavallari sponsored by the Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Foundation) (2005)
Memberships
- British Society for the History of Science (2009-2011; 2014- )
- Special Interest Group, Computers, Information and Society within the Society for the History of Technology http://www.sigcis.org/user/1671 (2010- )
- Society for the History of Technology (2012)
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