Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a lecturer at the Department of History at The University of Hong Kong, where he completed his PhD in History in 2021. His doctoral project investigated the history of animals in medicine and health in the nineteenth- and the twentieth-century Philippines. He is the recipient of the Wang Gungwu Prize for Research Postgraduate Students by the University of Hong Kong (2022) and the prestigious Young Historian’s Prize 2022 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Republic of the Philippines.

His research interests broadly cover environmental history (with focus on animals, health, and disease ecology), the history of science, technology, and medicine (with focus on biomedicine, public health, and zoonoses), food history, and health-environmental humanities, with the Philippines as his geographical focus. He has taught courses on the global histories of animals, food and empire, Philippine history, modern Southeast Asia, and digital games. Some of his works can be found at Society & Animals, Global Food History, and East Asian Science and Technology Studies. His full profile can be found here: http://nludovice.com.