Noemi Quagliati is a Max Weber Fellow in the Department of History at the European University Institute (EUI) and Principal Investigator of the research cluster Ecologies of Making: Material Culture Beyond the Human at the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities in Venice. She earned her PhD in Art History from LMU Munich and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. By interweaving environmental humanities, history of science and technology, and visual studies, her research investigates the infrastructures and imagery that enable the view from above in both military and civilian contexts over time. Her scholarship has been featured in journals such as Transbordeur, Sophia Journal, Vulcan, AUC Geographica, and Lagoonscapes, as well as in edited volumes including Storytelling and Environmental History, Pasted Topographies, and Nomadic Camera. She is currently finalising her first monograph on landscape and aerial photography in WWI Germany and co-editing the volume Planetary Waters – A Challenge Between Abstraction and Empathy (Bloomsbury). Previously, she explored bird-human-technology interactions through her MSCA postdoctoral project Bird’s-Eye Views of the Venetian Lagoon: Planetary Visions and Birdscapes of an Aquatic Ecosystem. Beyond her academic work, she has contributed to the modernisation of the Deutsches Museum’s aviation section by researching early aerial photography.
