Pietro Daniel Omodeo is a cultural historian of science and a professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His main areas of inquiry are the cultural history of cosmology and the politics of science.

Among other publications, he authored the monographs Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019) and Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia: The University of Frankfurt an der Oder in the Seventeenth Century (2022, in press).

He leads the Max Planck Partner Group in Venice The Water City on Anthropocene Venice, and is responsible for the projects EarlyModernCosmology (funded by the European Research Council, Horizon 2020, GA 725883) and EarlyGeoPraxis (FARE project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research).