Miriam Franchina is a historian specializing in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. After studying at the University of Milan, she earned her PhD from the University of Halle in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and completed a DFG-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Trier, where she reconstructed Catholicism as a language of enslaved resistance during the Haitian Revolution. She is currently a science communicator and project officer at Population Europe (Berlin) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Rostock), having previously led public relations and science communication at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam). She is also curating a small exhibition on the entanglements between Caribbean and Italian history in her native city of Bergamo and regularly contributes articles to il Mitte, an Italian-language newspaper in Germany. She is particularly interested in how historical research, public engagement, science communication and research coordination can foster dialogue across disciplines, people and cultures.