Dr Alessandra Quaranta is a historian in the field of Social History of Medicine in the early modern period. She is currently a MSCA fellow (HORIZON-MSCA-2024). The main topics of her research work include court medicine, the production and circulation of medical knowledge, scientific and professional relationships between Italian and German speaking territories, the role of gender in medical encounter, and the use of the senses in medical practice. She is currently researcher at the Italian-German Historical Institute of Trento. Previously, she achieved the Italian postdoctoral lecture qualification (associate professor, Abilitazione scientifica nazionale 2023-2025) in 2024 and held diverse post-doc fellowships (University of Trento, University of Vienna, University of Liege). She has also collaborated with the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Freie Universität of Berlin and with two prestigious Italian museums to set up exhibitions concerning the history of science (Fondazione Brescia Musei and MUSE - Museum of Sciences of Trento). As well as five peer-reviewed articles in international leading journals, she published several book chapters and two monographs. She participated as a speaker in international conferences and workshops, which took place in Trento, Padua, Pisa, Birmingham, Innsbruck, Vienna, Güssing, Lyon, Liege, and Boston. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the online journal Annali. Recensioni Online (ARO), edited by the Italian-German Historical Institute of Trento.