[3][1] He introduced Antoine Lavoisier's theories to Italy, and built a phosphorus-based[4] eudiometer sufficiently sensitive to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen.

[1] He was educated by Abbot G. B. Lovizzolo, studying the physical sciences and chemistry, and was apprenticed in pharmacies in Asti and Turin.

[11] He edited and contributed to a Journal of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, by a Philosophical Society at Turn, writing about marl and other fossil substances.

[16] He published experimental work in the debate over whether water was a simple element or chemical composition of hydrogen and oxygen.

In 1792, his work on the refutation of phlogiston theory won a prize competition on the subject, put forward by the Academy of Letters and Sciences of Mantua in 1790 and 1791.

[17] A number of other researchers developed variants on his eudiometer, including Spallanzani,[4] Humphry Davy, John Dalton, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac.

[18] In 1790, the University of Turin established the Deputazione per la Tinture, an ambitious project whose goals included the study of dye plants, the review of dyeing processes, cataloguing of dyestuffs and establishing a library, improving artisan skills, working with foreign dyers and chemists, and using new chemicals and instruments to improve the state of the art in Piedmont.

For example, Giobert suggested that uneven bleaching of cotton with alkaline lye was a cause of variable color-fastness when the cloth was dyed.

[23] In 1813, Giobert was appointed director of the École impériale pour la fabrication de l'indigo in Turin, which was established to study industrial processing of indigo.

[30] In 1798 he was appointed to the provisional government of Piedmont (Il Governo Provvisorio della Nazione Piemontese),[31] only to be imprisoned in 1799 when the Austrians briefly took power.

[13] In 1814, after the restoration of King Victor Emmanuel I, Giobert was one of nine professors removed from their teaching positions in Turin due to their political involvement.