Flavio D’Abramo

Università degli Studi di Scienze Gastronomiche
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo – 12042 Bra (Cn)

BIOGRAPHY

Flavio D’Abramo studied history and philosophy of science at La Sapienza in Rome, where he earned his doctorate. He was Visiting Fellow at Bochum University, in the Western part of Germany (2012-2013), then he was postdoctoral fellow at the Free University Berlin and Charité University Hospital in Berlin (2015-2018). He has been Visiting Student at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Centre Alexandre Koyré (2006-2007), and Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London (2008-2009). Between 2019 and 2021 he was researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where since 2022 he is Visiting Scholar. He has taught at Bard College in Berlin and Tel Aviv University (2019-2020). Since 2023, he is Research Fellow at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo.

In his research he uses, through an interdisciplinary approach, the tools of epistemology, the history of science, and empirical ethics to situate the relationships among life sciences, sanitary institutions, food production systems, and social subjects.

At Pollenzo, his work focuses on the common and diverging historical-epistemological trajectories of agricultural and medical technological systems, and their material and cultural impact on territories and communities.