Role
Associate Professor of History of Science at Pegaso University and associate member of the Laboratory "Etudes sur les sciences et les techniques" at Paris-Saclay University
Bio
Corinna Guerra graduated with honors in Philosophy from the University of Bari in 2007 and obtained a PhD in History of Science from the same university in 2011.
From 2011 to 2015, she worked at the Italian Institute for Historical Studies in Naples and the Neapolitan Society of National History. She then continued her career in France and the United Kingdom, as a researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Centre of the EHESS and as an Honorary Research Associate at University College London. Subsequently, as a professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, she created and directed the first International Winter School in Interdisciplinary Biodiversity for the National Biodiversity Future Centre and coordinated the UNESCO Chair in "Water Heritage and Sustainable Development." She is currently a professor of history of science in the Department of Literary, Linguistic, and Philosophical Studies at Pegaso University.
Her research combines the philosophy of science with the historical study of natural hazards, with a particular focus on the eruptions of Vesuvius and environmental issues, particularly water resources. She has also studied women in the history of chemistry and the SNSP Seismic Fund, for which she was invited by the Accademia dei Lincei to hold a "Lincean Conference" in 2023.
He received the Prize for Young Historians of the International Academy of the History of Science (2017) for the monograph Lavoisier and Parthenope .
Guerra also obtained HDR qualification in France in 2025 and was elected resident corresponding member of the Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts in 2026.