IDTC members

Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil, and a faculty member of the Graduate Program in History, Philosophy and Science Teaching UFBA/ UEFS. Rocha is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of History of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. E-mail: grrocha@uefs.br

Gianna Katsiampoura is a Researcher in History of Science of the Byzantine period in the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens) and she also teaches History of Science and Epistemology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Hellenic Open University.
She is the Assistant Editor of Almagest: Journal of the History of Scientific Ideas (published by Brepols) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (published by IEPS, UK). She is a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of the History of Science and Secretary/Treasurer of the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission (IDTC) of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
She has graduated from the Department of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has gained a Master of Science degree on “History and Philosophy of Science and Technology” from the National Technical University of Athens.
Her PhD Thesis: “Reception, Transmission and Function of Science in Middle Byzantine Era and the Quadrivium of 1008” has been awarded by the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens).
During her career she has hold teaching positions at the Universities of Crete and Thessaly and she has been a research associate with the CHST (Liege).
She has published extensively on History and Philosophy of Science and History of Science Education in referred journals such as Archives d’ Histoire des Sciences, Almagest, Science & Education etc and she has edited several volumes and Conference Proceedings on history of science and Science Studies (Gender and Science).
Her research interests include history and philosophy of science, gender and the history of science and history of science education. email: katsiaioan@primedu.uoa.gr

Officer: Elizabeth Cavicchi

Elizabeth Cavicchi interrelates science with history, art and social justice in creating exploratory experiences where teaching and learning is dynamic and evolving. During seminars she teaches at MIT’s Edgerton Center, students develop their own curiosity, wonder and voice, while engaging with sky observing, geometry, experimenting and indigenous science. In this teaching, and in other educational work, including supporting international teachers and students, she expresses the research pedagogy “critical exploration in the classroom”, of her doctoral adviser Eleanor Duckworth, based on findings of Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder that learners construct understanding through interacting with the world and others. Through self-initiated experimenting, learners, herself and historical investigators meet the unknown in the learning experiences developed in her dissertation (EdD. Harvard 1999) and in her postdoctoral research at MIT’s former Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology. As an MIT student for undergraduate degrees in physics and humanities, and a master’s in environmental art, Cavicchi developed passion for doing art and science together, which she continues through education, research and art. Being researcher for Philip Morrison’s public TV series Ring of Truth (1987) opened her awareness of participatory, investigatory and democratic possibilities for history, science, and learning. Cavicchi has written and presented internationally on explorations interweaving history, science phenomena, teaching and learning, including chapters in international educational volumes, and articles in Interchange, Science and Education, Perspectives on Science, Annals of Science, and others. She is coeditor, with Peter Heering, of Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education, Brill, 2022. email: ecavicch@mit.edu

Officer: Hillary Diane Andales

Hillary Diane Andales is an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying physics, astronomy, and STS (Science, Technology, & Society). Through the MIT Edgerton Center, she does research on unconventional pedagogies that integrate physics content with its human context. More broadly, she is interested in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and in science education. Besides the humanistic dimensions of physics, she also works on astrophysics research through the MIT Kavli Institute. She is primarily interested in near-field cosmology and dark matter.
email: handales@mit.edu