Sabina Leonelli is a philosopher of science and professor at the Technische Universität München, Germany.

[2] Originally from Italy, Leonelli moved to the UK for a BSc degree in history, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science at University College London and a MSc degree in History and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics.

Her doctoral research was carried out in the Netherlands at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with Henk W. de Regt and Hans Radder.

[7] Since 2024 Leonelli is Professor for Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technische Universität München in Munich.

[10] In 2016, she co-chaired the production of the Open Data Position Statement by the GYA and European Young Academies[11] and in 2018, co-authored the GYA Statement on Plan S.[12] Leonelli was awarded with the 2018 Lakatos award for Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study (2016), a book on the use of data and databases in contemporary biological research practices.