Nuno Castel-Branco is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously, he worked at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after earning a BSc and MSc in Physics at Tecnico Lisbon in Portugal. His research on early modern science and culture has been generously supported by institutions such as the Fulbright Program, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Royal Society, and, more recently, the John Fell Fund from the University of Oxford.
His first book The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science (U. Chicago Press, 2025) was reviewed in multiple places including TLS and the American Historical Review. He has also published in academic journals such as Isis and Renaissance Quarterly, and more popular publications like The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Scientific American. He is the author of the newsletter Stories of Science.