PhD University of Rome “La Sapienza, 2003.” Associate Professor (professor agregat) of History of Science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Editor-in-chief of Centaurus, The Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. Coordinator of the UPF research group in history of modern science and culture. Corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science. Member of the international Board of the Society for the History of Humanities. Member of the editorial board of Medical History. My current research interests include science and technology during the Cold War and science, medicine, nation-making and empire building
Publications in the past 5 years (2021 – 2025):
Cozzoli, D. “Liaisons Dangereuses: Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and the Circulation of Knowledge about Penicillin (1943-1950)”The British Journal for the History of Science (accepted).
Capocci, M- Cozzoli, D. “Migrazioni e medicina italiana nell’età degli imperi (1875 – 1914),” in Del Giudice, F. – Pavan, I. (eds.) Pratiche amministrative e azione penale nella selezione e criminalizzazione dei migranti, Bologna: il Mulino, 2025, pp. 151 – 86.
Cozzoli, D. “The Political Elaboration on Science and Technology of the Italian Communist Party between the 1960s and the 1980s,”Isis, 116 (3): 485 – 503, (2025).
Cozzoli, D. “Editorial: The Present and Future of Centaurus,” Centaurus, 66(1-2): 11 – 5, 2024.
Cozzoli, D. “Mario Ageno and the Status of Biophysics,” History and philosophy of Life Sciences, 46(19): 1 – 15, 2024.
Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. eds. Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960, London: Palgrave-McMillan, 2024.
Cozzoli, D. “Kuhn, Popper, the Military-Industrial Complex and the Techno-Scientific Revolution,” in Yafeng Shan ed. Rethinking Thomas Kuhn’s Legacy, Cham, Springer, 2024, pp. 269 – 89.
Cozzoli, D. “Edoardo Amaldi and the Scientific Collaboration with USSR,” in R. Lalli and J. Navarro eds. Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 257 – 72.
Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. “Tropical Medicine, the Nation, and the Colonial Expansion in the View of Italian Royal Navy Physicians at the End of the Nineteenth Century” in Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. eds. Empire, Nation-Building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960, London: Palgrave-McMillan, 2024, pp. 110 – 24.
Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. “Introduction: The Age of Empire, the making of the modern nation and the advancement of medical sciences” in Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. eds. Empire, Nation-Building and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885-1960, London: Palgrave-McMillan, 2024, pp. 1 – 25.
Cozzoli, D. “John Desmond Bernal and Bernalism,” in M. Condé – M. Salomon eds Handbook of Historiography of Science, Cham: Springer, 2024, pp. 101 – 20.
Cozzoli, D. “The Visible Technicians. Scientists, Technicians, and the Neutrality of Science in 1960s and 1970s Italy,” Physis, 2: 397 – 427, 2023.
Cozzoli, D. “Mario Ageno (Livorno 1915 – Roma 1992),” Scientia, (1)1: 161- 70, 2023.
Cozzoli, D. “The Logic of Life, the Creation of the EMBL and the relations between biology and physics,” Hopos, 13(2): 463 – 82, 2023.
Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. “The Global Dimension of Rome Zoological Garden and Italian Colonialism” in M. Duarte, T. Haddad, K. Raj (eds.) Beyond Science and Empire: Circulation of Knowledge in an Age of Global Empires (1750-1945). London: Routledge, 2023, pp 110-24.
Cozzoli, D. “ Review of Aro Velmet, Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (OUP, 2020)” Nuncius, 2023, 38, 734-7.
Capocci, M. – Cozzoli, D. “Quarantine at the Eastern gate. The Italian Perspective in Alexandria, 1899-1903,” in Miralles, C. – Martínez, F. J. eds. Matter of Containment SHS conferences, https://www.shs-conferences.org/articles/shsconf/abs/2022/06/contents/contents.html, 2022
Cozzoli, D. “The Age of Molecular biology,” Centaurus 64(4): 947 – 52, 2022.
Cozzoli, D. “History of Science and Political History: Intersections, Differences, Traditions,” Physis 1(57): 205 – 25, 2022.
Cozzoli, D. “Exploration” Entry for the Encyclopedia of Renaissance philosophy ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer International Verlag, 2022, pp. 1 – 5.
Cozzoli, D. “Observation” Entry for the Encyclopedia of Renaissance philosophy ed. by M. Sgarbi, Springer International Verlag, 2022, pp. 1 – 7.
Cozzoli, D. “ Review of Rienk Vermij Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground,”. Renaissance Quarterly, 2022, 75(3): 1015 – 17.
Cozzoli, D.”Machiavelli: Italian Historiography and Politics,” History of Humanities 6(1), 327 – 38, 2021
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