Dr Nuno Castel-Branco
Nuno Castel-Branco is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after earning a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physics at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His first book, The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2025. His research 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 writing has also appeared in publications such as Isis, Renaissance Quarterly, and Annals of Science, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Scientific American.
Selected Publications
(University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Isis 115 (2024)
Annals of Science 79 (2022)
Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2022). (co-authored with Troels Kardel, MD).
Renaissance Quarterly 74 (2021)
Winner of Oliveira Marques Prize for Best Article in the History of Portugal