giuditta parolini
Office address: Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Sekretariat H23
Straße des 17 Juni, 135
10623 Berlin
Germany
email: giudittaparolini@gmail.com
skypename: giudittaparolini
Italian mobile: +39 3497301187
German mobile: +49 01745946193
personal website: https://giudittaparolini.wordpress.com
CV updated till July 2015
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 Completed
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.
Teaching
- Organisation of the seminar A Computer Perspective (TU Berlin, Wintersemester 2014-2015). A copy of the course syllabus is available in the online repository of the Special Interest Group Computers, Information and Society (SIGCIS) http://www.sigcis.org/files/Syllabus_Parolini_def.pdf.
- Organisation of the seminar Oral History: Foundations and Methodology (TU Berlin, Wintersemester 2015-2016).
Presentations
October 2015 (forth.) “From paper to bit: a digital life for the records of long-term experiments in agriculture”, SIGCIS Workshop 2015, Albuquerque.
July 2015 “The experimental error of field trials: from conceptualization to computation”, ISHPSSB 2015 Meeting, Montreal.
June 2015 “People, Tools and Practices of Statistics at Rothamsted Experimental Station, 1900s-1970s”, joint meeting on the history of statistical research at Rothamsted organised by the Royal Statistical Society History of Statistics Study Group and Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.
May 2015 “Mario Tchou: Ricerca e sviluppo per l’elettronica Olivetti”, book presentation organised by the Italian Association for Computer Science (AICA) that sponsored the publication of the book.
October 2014 “Farming, meteorology and field experiments: using statistics to improve agricultural practices”, Workshop “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, Berlin.
September 2014 “Statistical expertise in agricultural research”, Science and Technology in the European Periphery Meeting (STEP), 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 für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 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
2016 Parolini, Giuditta (2016, forthcoming) 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 (2015, forthcoming) Editor (with Thomas Morel, TU Berlin, and Cesare Pastorino, TU Berlin), Proceedings of the Workshop “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, MPIWG Berlin, 30-31 October 2014 to be published in the Max-Planck-Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint Series.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (2015, forthcoming) Farming, meteorology and field experiments: using statistics to improve agricultural practices. Proceedings of the Workshop “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, MPIWG Berlin, 30-31 October 2014 to be published in the Max-Planck-Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint Series.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (July 2015) Charting the history of agricultural experiments. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s40656-015-0079-5. Introduction to a special issue on experimentation in 20th century agricultural science I guest edited for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (July 2015) In pursuit of a science of agriculture: the role of statistics in field experiments. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s40656-015-0075-9.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (February 2015) Mario Tchou: Ricerca e sviluppo per l’elettronica Olivetti [in Italian]. Milano: Egea.
2015 Parolini, Giuditta (2015) Review of Hallam Stevens, Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 37, No. 1.
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. Printed in 2015 in Vol. 48(2): 301-335.
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
2015 “The challenges of digital archives”, session to be held during the SIGCIS Workshop 2015, Albuquerque, 11 October 2015.
2014 (with Thomas Morel, TU Berlin, and Cesare Pastorino, TU Berlin) Workshop “The Making of Useful Knowledge”, MPIWG Berlin, 30-31 October 2014. Workshop sponsored by the Berliner Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte.
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. A podcast of the panel is available here http://www.plantsciencestudies.org/resources.html.
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: A2 level.
French (reading comprehension only): basic skills.
Latin and Ancient Greek: basic translation skills.
Awards
- DAAD Travel funding for attending the ISHPSSB 2015 Conference in Montreal (up to €2233) (June 2015)
- Thyssen Foundation travel subsidy (up to € 558) for visiting the Guinness Archive in Dublin (May 2015)
- 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)
- International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) (2015- )
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