President Kristian Camilleri is a lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science program in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. After studying physics and History and Philosophy of Science, he completed his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne in 2005. Kristian has published in the history and philosophy of modern physics, and is currently engaged in research on the role of metaphors in science, and the different forms of reasoning historically employed in thought experiments. Email: president@aahpsss.org |
 Vice-President Nicola Marks is Senior Lecturer in the Science and Technology Studies program at the University of Wollongong. She studied natural sciences and genetics at Cambridge and completed a Masters by Research in human genetics at Edinburgh. She then did her PhD in Sociology of Scientific Knowledge also at Edinburgh. Her research interests include reproductive technologies, science controversies, language and public engagement in science. She is currently CI with Assoc. Professor Sarah Ferber and Professor Vera Mackie on an ARC Discovery Project entitled “IVF and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Global Experience”. Email: vicepresident@aahpsss.org |
 Treasurer Luciano Boschiero, Campion College, specialises in the history and philosophy of early modern science, particularly scientific academies in the seventeenth century. Luciano is the author of several journal papers, as well as the book: Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento. He is currently researching the origins of the Accademia degli Inquieti in 1690s Bologna, and the contributions of mathematician and philosopher, Geminiano Montanari, to the experimental life in Bologna and London during the second half of the seventeenth century. Email: treasurer@aahpsss.org |
 Publications Officer John Wilkins, Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, specialises in the history and philosophy of biology, and in particular of classification and taxonomy. He has published books on the history of the concept of species (Species: A history of the Idea, 2009, and Defining species: a sourcebook from antiquity to today 2009, and on the philosophy of classification, The nature of Classification (2013, with Malte Ebach). Email: website@aahpsss.org |
Treasurer Luciano Boschiero, Campion College, specialises in the history and philosophy of early modern science, particularly scientific academies in the seventeenth century. Luciano is the author of several journal papers, as well as the book: Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany: The History of the Accademia del Cimento. He is currently researching the origins of the Accademia degli Inquieti in 1690s Bologna, and the contributions of mathematician and philosopher, Geminiano Montanari, to the experimental life in Bologna and London during the second half of the seventeenth century. Email: treasurer@aahpsss.org
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