Michele Camerota teaches History of Science at the University of Cagliari. His research interests are focused on the history of mechanics and astronomy in the 16th and 17th centuries, with special regard to Galilean science.

From 1995 to 1996, he was visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte) in Berlin.

In 1998-1999, he worked in Florence, at the Institute and Museum of History of Science, serving as coordinator of the project Galileo//thek@, a web resource that collects texts, documents, images, bibliographies, chronological and lexicographical indexes concerning Galileo.

Since 2004, Camerota is editor (along with Massimo Bucciantini and Franco Giudice) of Galilaeana. Studies in Early and Modern Science.

In 2013 he was finalist of the “Galileo Award of Scientific Divulgation” with the book (written in collaboration with M. Bucciantini and F. Giudice) Il telescopio di Galileo. Una storia europea (Torino, Einaudi, 2012; American edition: Harvard University Press, 2015).

He served as Coordinator of the Commission for the updating of the National Edition of Galileo’s Works; in collaboration with Patrizia Ruffo, he edited the volumes on Correspondence (2015) and Documents (2019).

Member of the Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena and of the Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, he has been seconded professor (professore distaccato) at the Beniamino Segre Interdisciplinary Center of the Academia dei Lincei (Rome), for the three-year period 2021/22-2023/24.