Prior to joining King Hall, he was Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, specializing in intellectual property in science.  He has also taught at UCLA, Stanford, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Science Sociales (Paris), and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).  For more than a decade, Professor Biagioli has been studying problems of authorship and priority attribution in contemporary "Big Science," editing (with Peter Galison), Scientific Authorship (Routledge, 2003).  He has subsequently published on the history of patenting in the sciences, the development of specifications requirements, the peer review of patent applications.  With Pater Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee, he has edited Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (Chicago, 2011) and is working on The Author as Vegetable, a book on the role of environmental concepts in contemporary discussions of the knowledge commons.  Other current research interests include definitions of patentable subject matter and the role of secrecy in science. 

A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is a founding member of the International Society for the Theory and History of Intellectual Property (ISTHIP).  After studying computer science at the University of Pisa (Italy) and receiving an MFA in photography from the Visual Studies Workshop and the Rochester Institute of Technology, he was awarded a PhD in history of science from UC Berkeley in 1989.  He is also the author of Galileo Courtier (Chicago, 1993 - translated in German, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese), Galileo's Instruments of Credit (Chicago, 2006)), and the editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1998).   

• Directeur d'Etudes Associe’, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (April 1998 and May-June 1993)
• Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (1992-1995)
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History of Science, Harvard University (Spring 1993)
• Visiting Professor, Program in History of Science, Stanford University (Winter 1992)
• Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (1989-1992)
• Lecturer, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (1988-1989)

• Artisans and Instruments, 1300-1800, edited volume with Jean Francois Gauvin (a special issue of History of Science, 44 (2006), no. 144, Part 2)
• The Scientific Revolution as Narrative, edited volume with Steve Harris (a special issue of Configurations, 6 (1998), No. 2, Spring)
• Located Knowledges: Intersections between Science, Gender, and Cultural Studies, edited volume, co-edited with Roddey Reid and Sharon Traweek (a special issue of Configurations, 2 (1994), No. 1, Winter)
• Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property, edited volume (with Martha Woodmansee and Peter Jaszi), University of Chicago Press (In press, March 2011 expected release date)
• Nature Engaged, edited volume (with Jessica Riskin), forthcoming Palgrave-MacMillan Publishers (Spring 2011)
• "Kepler, Galileo and the Use of Witnessing in Astronomy", in Nature Engaged (see above)
• "Did Galileo Copy the Telescope? A ‘New' Letter by Paolo Sarpi," in Albert van Helden and Sven Dupre`, Rob van Ghent, and Huib Zuidervaar (eds), The Origins of the Telescope, (Helsinki: Edita Publishing, 2010)
• "The Author as Vegetable: Environmental Imagery in Contemporary Intellectual Property", Representations, forthcoming Winter 2011
• "Between Sign and Symbol: Patronage and Musical Distinction in Marenzio's Madrigals," Mauro Calcagno (ed), The Secular Music of Luca Marenzio (1533-1599), Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2010
• Italian translation of Galileo Courtier, (Edizioni Einaudi)
• Please see Curriculum Vitae (to be posted soon) for additional publications, including articles in peer-reviewed journals.