He became the student and then assistant of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, professor of physiology at the University of Vienna.

[3] He then left for Berlin, where he followed the lectures of Brücke's friend, Emil du Bois-Reymond, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

In 1859, Lombardy was liberated from the Austrians following the Armistice of Villafranca: Giuseppe Albini, despite his important position at the University of Krakow, resigned and returned to Italy to work as a natural history teacher at the secondary school of Casale Monferrato.

[3] On 27 October 1877 he was elected foreign honorary member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

[3] Giuseppe Albini was particularly interested in optics and chemistry and published articles on glandular secretions, embryology, and nerve physiology.