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Mario Biagioli

Mario Biagioli is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard, where he teaches courses on science and intellectual property and on the economy of scientific credit since 1600. He is currently working on a book on the sociology and history of scientific authorship and publication system from the early modern period to 'big science.' He has published articles on peer review, the author function in contemporary science, the patent bargain, the patenting of scientific instruments, and has edited (with Peter Galison) Scientific Authorship (Routledge, 2003). His other books include Galileo's Instruments of Credit (Chicago, 2006), Galileo Courtier (Chicago, 1993), and The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1998). He is currently editing (with Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi) a volume of recent trends in IP (Chicago, forthcoming). Prior to joining Harvard in 1995, Biagioli was a member of the history department at UCLA and co- director of the Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine. After studying computer science at the University of Pisa (Italy) and receiving an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY), he was awarded a PhD from UC Berkeley in 1989.