About


Dr. Vincent Roy-Di Piazza


I was born in France, and educated in Italy, France, Denmark and England. After undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne and the Ecole normale supérieure, I completed my doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2022, where I was a funded British research council student (AHRC-DTP), a Gilbert Ryle scholar at Linacre College, and the inaugural doctoral scholar of the Swedenborg Society in London.

I am currently a European research council postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä (JYU) in Finland. There, I am working within the ERC-Consolidator project De-centring eighteenth century political economy: rethinking growth, wealth, and welfare in the Swedish Empire (ERC, DEPE, 101088549) led by Prof. Ere Nokkala until 2028. Before coming to JYU, I worked at the University of Oxford as a British research council postdoctoral fellow, and then as a Hagströmer fellow in history at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, while also teaching at Stockholm University.
I have been the recipient of several funded short term research fellowships, most notably at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California (2019), the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy (2019), the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (2022, 2024), and the University of Amsterdam (2023).

I am an associate researcher of the Oxford Faculty of History, an elected Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the board of directors of the Swedenborg Foundation, and a member of the international research group War Losses and Casualties, which brings together historians of war, medicine, and the body.

More broadly, I am an award-winning science communicator and author, passionate about public and academic speaking. You can find more about my research on this website, and reach me via email or social media. I welcome inquiries to share expertise, speak, and provide mentorship.