Riccardo Strobino currently a Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor at Tufts University with a primary appointment in Classical Studies, and a secondary appointment in Philosophy.

his main research interests lie in the history of philosophy, logic and epistemology in Antiquity, the Latin Middle Ages, and the Arabic-Islamic tradition.

he obtained his first degree in philosophy at the University of Milan (2003) with a thesis on the logic of the continuum in Aristotle and some of his medieval interpreters. Before graduate school, he took a master in economics at Bocconi University (2004) and spent about a year in business.

In 2009 he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, with a dissertation on late 14th-century logic. he then spent two more years in Pisa on a post-doctoral fellowship, after being involved in a project on the history of mathematics.

he have spent research periods at the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College (2007), at the Philosophy Department of UCLA (2011), and in Damascus, Syria, (2011).

In 2014, he went back to UCLA as a visiting lecturer to teach Arabic-Islamic philosophy and Medieval Philosophy.

In 2017-2018 he was a fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.