Michela Massimi is an Italian and British philosopher of science,[1] a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, and the president-elect of the Philosophy of Science Association.
[4] Massimi has dual Italian and British citizenship.
[4] After studying philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome from 1993 to 1997,[1] she completed a Ph.D. in 2002 at the London School of Economics, and after three years of postdoctoral research as a Junior Research Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge, she became a Lecturer in history and philosophy of science at University College London in 2005.
[2] Massimi was the Wilkins–Bernal–Medawar Medalist and Lecturer of the Royal Society in 2017, speaking on "Why philosophy of science matters to science,"[6] and she won the Lakatos Award of the London School of Economics in 2023 for her 2022 book Perspectival Realism.
[5] Massimi is the author of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle (Cambridge University Press, 2005)[8] and Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022).