Chiara Di Leone

Chiara Di Leone

Graduate Student

Email: chiaradileone@gmail.com

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Field of Study

History of Science

Research

My research traces the emergence of climate modeling in the long 20th century. I focus on the 1970s boom in “world models” — from the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth to alternative simulations emerging from Latin American cybernetics — to show how modeling tools reshaped debates on ecology, development, and political futures across the Atlantic.

Awards & Grants

LAI Graduate Student Summer 2025 Research Grant, Mellon Foundation, 2025

Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2024

Burns Chair award, UCLA, 2024

Advisor(s)

Soraya de Chadarevian, Elizabeth O’Brien

Degrees

BsC in Economics and Finance, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome

MA, Goldsmiths University of London