Raffaella Simili teaches History of scientific thought at Bologna University. She is the representative for Italy at the International Union of the History of Science, of which she was also First-Vice President, and at the Executive Council of the European Science Foundation. She has published, amongst other volumes: L'epistemologia di Cambridge. 1850-1950. (Bologna 1987), Federigo Enriques filosofo e scienziato (Bologna 1989), Guglielmo Marconi e l'Italia (Roma 1996). For Laterza she has edited the volume Scienza tecnologia e istituzioni in Europa. Vito Volterra e l'origine del CNR (1993).