Sabina Leonelli#
| Membership Number: | 5700 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/research/sts/egenis/staff/leonelli/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7815-6609 |
| Twitter: | @sabinaleonelli |
| Linkedin: | https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sabina-leonelli-a878673b |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Professor of Philosophy and History of Science. Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter
- 2013 - present Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter.
- 2019 - present Turing Fellow. Alan Turing Institute, London
- 2021 - 2022 Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2018 (spring and summer terms) International Fellow. Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Ghent, Belgium
- 2014 - 2017 Associate Professor. Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, Exeter
- 2014 (winter term) Visiting Fellow. Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- 2011 - 2014 Senior Lecturer. Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, Exeter
- 2008 - 2011 Research Fellow. ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter
- 2006 - 2008 Research Officer. Leverhulme/ESRC Project ‘How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel?’, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- 2002 - 2006 Research Assistant. Project ‘Understanding Scientific Understanding’, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 2000 - 2002 Research Assistant. Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, LSE
Fields of Scholarship
- Data science
- History of science
- Open Science
- Social studies of science
- Scientific understanding
- Research governance
- Scientific modelling
- Philosophy of science
- Public engagement
Honours and Awards
- 2020 ERC Consolidator Award “A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments” (PHIL_OS), September 2021 - August 2026
- 2020 Selected as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (WAIE) list 2020 http://lighthouse3.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Diversity-and-Ethics-in-AI-2020.pdf
- 2020 Elected External Faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute (Institute for the Advanced Study of Natural Complex Systems), Klosterneuburg, Austria
- 2019 Elected Vice-President of the European Philosophy of Science Association (2019 - 2022)
- 2019 WIssenschaftkolleg zu Berlin Fellowship (awarded 2019 for residence in 2021 - 2022)
- 2019 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2019
- 2019 Elected Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie de la Science (AIPS, the international academy for the philosophy of science, with 70 members worldwide elected on the basis of research excellence)
- 2018 Elected Adjunct Professor (2019-2021) within the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, Australia
- 2018 Lakatos Award 2018 for outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science (for the book Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study)
- 2017 “Talented Young Italians” Award for Research and Innovation 2017 (awarded by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in the UK to an Italian researcher under 40 working in the UK)
- 2013 ERC Starting Grant ‘The Epistemology of Data-Intensive Science’ (DATA_SCIENCE), March 2014 - November 2019
- 2007 Marjorie Grene Prize 2007 (awarded by the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology to the best paper in the field written and presented as a PhD student)
- 2000 Dean’s list (UCL graduation class 2000)
- 1999 Jackson Lewis Scholarship for best results of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty, University College London 1999
- 1999 UCL Departmental Award as best Science & Technology Studies student for academic year 1998 - 1999
