People
Federico Neresini
University of Padua
Federico Neresini is Full Professor at the University of Padua. His research interests are focused on technoscience in a STS (Science & Technology Studies) perspective. In particular, he is interested in the construction processes of scientific knowledge and in analysing technoscience in the public sphere.
Vittoria Bernardini
University of Padua
Vittoria Bernardini is a research fellow at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua in the PRIN 2022 project Digital practices, Gender, and Intimacy in Teens' everyday life (Di.G.I.T.). Her main research interests include gender, gender-based violence and digital practices.
Alberto Cammozzo
University of Padua
Alberto Cammozzo is an IT consultant, programmer, systems engineer, project manager, and independent researcher.
Chiara Carbone
University of Padua
Chiara Carbone has a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Social Research and is a research fellow at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua in the PRIN 2022 project Gendering Internet. Violence, Resilience and Empowerment in digital spaces - GIVRE.
Stefano Crabu
University of Padua
Stefano Crabu, Ph.D. in Social Sciences (2014 - University of Padova), is Associate Professor. He carries out his teaching duties within the Bachelor's Degree programs in "Sociological Sciences" and "Communication." He is a member of the Ph.D. School in "Social Sciences" (Department of FISSPA - University of Padua).
Emanuele di Buccio
University of Padua
Emanuele Di Buccio is a Tenure Track Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. He holds a Master Degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Engineering. His main research interests include Information Access and Retrieval Models, modeling and experimenting with words and themes/topics, with particular attention to longitudinal corpora.
Camilla Fiz
University of Padua
Camilla Fiz is PhD at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua and is part of the PASTIS research group. Today she is involved in studying the intersections between science, media and society with a research project focused on the representation of nuclear fusion in the media.
Samuele Fratini
University of Padua
Samuele Fratini, graduated in Digital Communication & Public Opinion, is a PhD Candidate in the FISPPA Department, while involved in the PaSTIS working unit. He is particularly concerned with Media & Platform Studies and Internet Governance through an STS perspective. His research project deals with the sociomaterial evolutions of messaging applications. Other professional interests are digital political communication and the geopolitics of media.
Francesca Gambarotto
University of Padua
Francesca Gambarotto is professor of Applied Economics at the FISPPA Department, University of Padova. She teaches circular economy for local development, regional economics and economics of innovation.
Alessio Giacometti
University of Padua
Alessio Giacometti holds a Master’s degree in Sociology and Social Research and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in “Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions” at the University of Padua, with a project on the sociotechnical imaginaries of nuclear fusion.
Paolo Giardullo
University of Padua
Paolo Giardullo, Ph.D. is Tenure Track Assistant Professor (Rtt) in Sociology at the FISPPA Department, University of Padua (Sociology Section) where he teaches Sociology of the Environment and Territory and Methodology and Techniques of Social Research. Since 2020 he was awarded Italian national qualification as associate professore in Sociology (SPS/07).
Davide Ludovisi
University of Padua
Davide Ludovisi is PhD at the FISSPA Department of the University of Padua and is part of the PASTIS research group. He has been working in the field of communication since 2001, primarily in scientific dissemination, starting as a curator of exhibitions and continuing as a journalist and project manager.
Paolo Magaudda
University of Padua
Paolo Magaudda is Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication, teaches the courses "Technology and Society" and "Sociology of Consumption" and coordinates the teaching programme of the PhD in Social Sciences.
Alessandro Mongili
University of Padua
Alessandro Mongili is Professor of General Sociology at the School of Psychology and of Modernization Processes and Technoscience at the School of Human Sciences, University of Padua.
Barbara Morsello
University of Padua
Barbara Morsello is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padova and a member of the Pastis research group.Previously, she was a research fellow at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Padua as part of a Horizon 2020 project in which she worked on the social implications of emerging technologies in neuroscience with a focus on brain stimulation and AI.
Giorgio Osti
University of Padua
Giorgio Osti is Associate Professor at the University of Padua. In 1983 he graduated in Sociology from the University of Trento where he earned a PhD in Sociology and Social Research. First a researcher and then Associate Professor of Sociology of Environment and Territory at the University of Trieste from 1993-2020 and with the same title since 2020 at the University of Padua.
Rachele Reschiglian
University of Padua
Rachele Reschiglian (she/they), Ph.D. student in Social Sciences at the department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padova (Italy). She holds a MA in Communication Studies and Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University (Denmark).
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
University of Padua
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli (PhD in Social Sciences, 2013) is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) at the University of Padua. Her research interests are in digital media with a focus on: intimacy, gender, sexuality and youth cultures,
Andrea Sciandra
University of Padua
Andrea Sciandra is Assistant Professor in Social Statistics at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (University of Padova). He has a master’s degree in Statistics for Demographic and Social Sciences and a PhD in Sociology and Social Research.
Renato Stella
University of Padua
Renato Stella is Full Professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes at the Fisppa Department of the University of Padua. He is a member of the board of the Ph.D. program in "Social Sciences: interactions, communication, cultural constructions," teaches Mass Communications at the Communication major and New Media at the Community Psychology major.
Jacopo Targa
University of Padua- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA)
Jacopo Targa (he/him), PhD in URBEUR - Urban Studies at the University of Milan-Bicocca, is currently a research fellow at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua and is working on the SCHOOLNET project.
Lorena Xiomara Gonzalez Acero
University of Padua- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (FISPPA)
Lorena-Xiomara González-Acero (she/they), original from Bogotá, Colombia is a biologist holding a Master in Biochemistry recently in contact with Science and Technology Studies (STS).
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Sonia Brondi
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Sonia Brondi is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches Social Psychology and Social Relations.
Silvia Casini
Department of Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen (UK)
Silvia Casini is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen (UK) where she teaches courses to students in the humanities and in the life sciences, besides coordinating the intercalated medical humanities degree.
Roberto Favalli
University of Padua
Roberto Favalli holds a master’s degree in “Culture, education and global society” at the FISPPA department of the University of Padua. He identifies his main research interests between Science & Technology Studies (STS) and the sociology of the future; and in the declinations of this convergence in fields like the study of technoscientific expectations and sociotechnical imaginaries.
Francesco Miele
University of Trieste - Department of Political and Social Sciences
Francesco Miele is a Tenure Track Researcher (RTD-B) at the University of Trieste and is part of the PaSTIS research unit. His main research interests regard the relationship between technology, care practices and organization.
Sergio Minniti
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universitas Mercatorum
Sergio Minniti is Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Universitas Mercatorum. His work focuses on critical studies of innovation and digitalisation at the intersection of Science & Technology Studies and Media Studies.
Olga Usachova
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Olga Usachova is a postdoctoral research fellow in Science & Technology Studies (STS). Her current research focuses on the role of electricity grids and electricity grid operators in energy transitions, with a particular focus on their potential role in transformative innovation processes. The project is conducted in close collaboration with CINELDI: Centre for Intelligent Electricity Distribution.
Virginia Zorzi
University of Turin - Department of Cultures, Politics and Society
Virginia Zorzi is a researcher (RTD-A) at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society, University of Turin. She received a Ph.D in Linguistic, Philological and Literary Sciences from the University of Padua. Her research activity can be situated in the areas of applied linguistics and discourse analysis, and focuses on English and Italian texts through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.