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Fabrizio Bigotti

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Fabrizio Bigotti is a Privatdozent (PD) and Lecturer at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, where he holds a venia legendi in the history of medicine, science and medical ethics. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.

His research examines premodern medical and philosophical thought, from classical antiquity to the Enlightenment, with particular interests in quantification and the history of physiology. 

His publications include volumes on the history of taxonomy (La mente che ordina i segni — Aracne, 2009) and mind–body relations (Physiology of the Soul: Mind, Body and Matter in the Galenic Tradition of the Late Renaissance 1550–1630 — Brepols, 2019), as well as quantification (Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, coedited with Jonathan Barry — Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and early modern pharmacopoeias (Galen’s Remedies in the Early Modern Period, coedited with John Wilkins — Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). 

His research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),  the Warburg Institute, University of London, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Edward Worth Library. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, and he has been appointed Lady Davis Visiting Associate Professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for 2027. He is editor of the Brepols series ‘Ars Longa: Texts and Traditions of Medicine from Antiquity to 1800’ as well as

co-editor of the series ‘Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine’ and the journal ‘Sudhoffs Archiv’.

In October 2026, he received the City of Koper’s ‘Sole d’Oro’ award in recognition of his scholarly and cultural contributions to the history of quantification in medicine.