Call for Applications

 

1 PhD position in the history of science (3 years, fully funded), Northwestern Italian Philosophy Convention FINO (https://www.finophd.eu/)

 

The position is funded by Prof. Roberto Lalli, in relation to his participation to the multinational collaboration of the ERC AdG Project Neworld@a: Negotiating World Research Data – A Science Diplomacy Study (https://neworldata.org/). The location will be the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. A mobility period of six months at the University of Manchester is planned.

 

The theme of the PhD research project will be: "The history and politics of techno-scientific standardization in the international arena” .

 

The PhD student will analyze the negotiations—among scientists, institutions, and countries—to set standards in physics and chemistry in the 20th century and the impact of this international standard-setting process on the processes of establishing word data centers and the global system of scientific data exchange. 

 

The ideal candidate should:

- have experience with the transnational approach to the historiography of science and technology

- combine research on the history of physics and/or chemistry in the 20th century with research on the history of international relations 

- demonstrate an excellent level of English (written and spoken) 

- have discrete reading knowledge of French and German.