GERLINI MATTEO

Matteo Gerlini specialises in the history and politics of security and scientific and technological cooperation, with a focus on emerging disruptive technologies. He educated at the Cesare Alfieri Institute with Ennio di Nolfo, researching the history of Italian foreign policy and the history of nuclear proliferation. He has taught the history of politics and scientific research at the special school for archivists and librarians at La Sapienza University in Rome, and has collaborated with Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Maryland. He is a member of the scientific evaluation panel of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme. He has lectured at Keio University and was a Taiwan Fellow during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a visiting fellow at the Alcide De Gasperi Centre of the European University Institute, where he conducted a project on behalf of the European Commission on the history of nuclear research at the Joint Research Centre and a project on the history of the Ispra site of the Joint Research Centre. He teaches in the Master's programme in International Nuclear Safeguards at PoliMI and coordinates the nuclear security training project of the OECD-NEA's NEST programme. He chaired the International Nuclear Security Education Network, an academic partnership of the IAEA. In 2026, he founded the Centre for Security and Cooperation Studies at the University of Siena, which he directs.