Roberto Lalli is a historian of modern physical sciences based at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests range from the epistemic and social aspects of the practices of contrarian science, such as the anti-relativity movements, to the historical processes of consensus building around specific bodies of knowledge, including the evolution of refereeing practices. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s formulation of general relativity theory, he was also involved in several projects taking place in 2015 aimed at exploring understudied historiographical themes related to the renaissance of general relativity in the post-Second World War era, and additionally at bringing the theory to the general public through exhibitions and theatrical events. After having earned a PhD in international history at the University of Milan in 2011, he spent two years in Cambridge as postdoctoral fellow on the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.