Matteo Antonelli is a Ph.D. student in philosophy of science at the University of Urbino (Research Methods in Science and Technology program). He obtained his M.A. at the University of Bologna, working with Prof. Francesco Bianchini, with a thesis on the study of consciousness, from both a scientific and philosophical point of view. His research interests concern the philosophy of mind and the cognitive neuroscience, with a particular focus on consciousness, self and perception. Besides these topics, he is also interested in questions related to the philosophy of biology, the artificial intelligence and the history of philosophy.

Francesca Battistoni is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy of Science at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo - Research Methods in Science and Technology program –under the supervision of Prof. Vincenzo Fano. She obtained her M.A. at the University AlmaMater of Bologna, with a thesis on the concept of Time and Causality for Aristotle, in a comparison with contemporary physics, working with Prof. Walter Cavini and Carlotta Capuccino. Previously she obtained a M.A. at the same University in Communication Science, with a thesis on Semiotic of the text working with Prof. Maria Pia Pozzato. 

Her main interests lie in the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, History of Science, Philosophy of Language and Ancient Philosophy and her Ph.D. research project concerns the re-evaluation of the Aristotelian concept of time in a comparison with the contemporary physics theory such as General Relativity and Quantum Gravity

Matteo Bedetti is a Ph.D. student in philosophy of science at the University of Urbino. He obtained his M.A. at the University of Urbino, with a thesis on the epistemology of evolutionary psychology, working with Prof. Vincenzo Fano. His research project concerns the methods of historical sciences, in particular, how paleontology and paleoanthropology deal with epistemically unfavorable situations. He is also interested in questions concerning the philosophy of evolutionary biology and the evolution of animal cognition.

Niccolò Covoni is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy of Physics at the University of Urbino (Research Methods in Science and Technology program) and a Ph.D student in Philosophy at The University of Svizzera Italiana (USI). Before his current position, he obtained his Bachelor at the University of Pisa, with a thesis on the foundation of Quantum Logic, working with Prof.Luca Bellotti. He obtained his Master in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Florence, with a thesis on Quantum Information, working with Prof. Silvano Zipoli Caiani and Prof. Giuseppe Sergioli (University of Cagliari). His main interests lie in the Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics and Logic and his Ph.D. project concerns a combination of these topics, in particular, how to formalise a possible ontology of the quantum information.

Ludovico Fusco is a Ph.D. student at the University of Urbino (ReMeST program) working in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. He received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy from the University of Pisa, where he specialized in universal algebra and algebraic logic. His research interests generally concern the application of algebraic and category-theoretic methods in logic and computer science. He is currently working on (non-commutative) substructural modal logics, hyperproperties, and related applications to the behavioral modeling and verification of reactive systems.

Giovanni Gaia is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy of Science at the University of Urbino. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Ancient Literature and another in Philosophy of Information, both at the University of Urbino. Before becoming a Ph.D. student he taught literature and history in secondary school. His main interests concern the history of mathematics and the history of astronomy. He is currently working on astronomy and gnomonics at the mathematical school of Urbino, with a particular focus on the Novae Gnomonices libri quinque by Bernardino Baldi. 

My name is Vincenzo Nespeca and I was born in 1998 in the province of Ascoli Piceno. I received my bachelor's degree in physics at the University of Perugia and my master's degree in theoretical physics at the University of Bologna, with a thesis in philosophy of physics. I am currently a PhD student in philosophy of physics at the University of Urbino, where I work on methodology in the field of quantum gravity; in particular, my project consists in the methodological evaluation of the main quantum gravity research programmes (such as string theory and loop quantum gravity) and more generally in the search for new philosophically grounded strategies for a better organization of research and scientific community. 

Ciro Elio Saltarelli is a PhD student in History of Science (Research Method in Science and Technology) at the University of Urbino. He obtained his Bachelor's degree with a thesis on the history of music supervised by Prof. Glauco Maria Cantarella, followed by a Master's degree on the history of philosophy, working with Prof. Domenico Felice at the University of Bologna.

Since 2015, he has taught philosophy and history in high schools with a particular orientation on educational experiments.

His main interests lie in the History and Philosophy of Science and the teaching of the related disciplines.

His PhD project concerns the evolution of the history of seismology in the last century, focusing on the interdisciplinary and epistemological aspects of historical seismology.

Simone Salzano is a PhD student in Philosophy of Science at the University of Urbino and a PhD student in Philosophy at LMU Munich, working under the joint supervision of Prof. Vincenzo Fano (Urbino) and Prof. Stephan Hartmann (LMU). 

Before beginning his doctoral studies, he completed an MA in Philosophy at the University of Lugano (USI, Switzerland), where he wrote a thesis on the philosophy of quantum mechanics under the supervision of Prof. Tim Maudlin. As part of his master’s program, he spent the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), hosted by the Faculty of Science and supported by the Swiss-European Mobility Program (SEMP). His research interests encompass the history and philosophy of physics, metaphysics, and the general philosophy of science. Currently, he is investigating how Effective Field Theories can inform and reshape longstanding debates in the philosophy of science, particularly those concerning scientific realism, emergence, reduction, and fundamentality.