Eleonora Andriani

Eleonora Andriani is a philologist and historian of science, specializing in Latin works on the astral sciences from the thirteenth through late fifteenth centuries. Her research, which also encompasses medieval magic and divination, combines foundational philological, palaeographical, and codicological methods with innovative digital approaches to editing, analyzing, and interpreting historical sources. Eleonora earned her degree in classics at the Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, and an international PhD (2019, Università del Salento / Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany) in medieval philosophy, with a dissertation at the intersection of philosophy and the history of science. She received academic training at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, Cologne, while preparing her doctoral project (2015), and later pursued her doctoral studies at the Warburg Institute, University of London, UK (2016–2018). 
Before joining The Sphere project (PI Matteo Valleriani), she directed PATHS (Philological Approaches for Texts in the History of the Astral Sciences; Access ERC Starting Grant ANR 2023–2025) at the IRHT – Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes, Paris, and was a research guest in the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Munich, Germany). She currently holds affiliations with the IRHT and the Paris Observatory, and participates as a research guest in the EIDA project (Editing and Analysing Historical Astronomical Diagrams with Artificial Intelligence, Paris). Since 2025, she has been serving as the Early Career Representative on the board of CHAMA – Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy.