Religious Experience and the Foundations of Modern Science

About the speaker:

Nuno Castel-Branco is a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He completed his Ph.D. in the history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins University in 2021 after earning a Bachelors and Masters in Physics at the University of Lisbon. After his PhD, he was 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. He often speaks about the history of science to broad audiences in the United States and Europe. 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 writing has also appeared in places like the Wall Street Journal, Physics Today, and Scientific American, as well as in research journals such as “Notes and Records of the Royal Society,” and “Isis”.