Curriculum Vitae

2016- Full Professor, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld
2019- Full Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali - Università di Bologna
2001-2019 Associate Professor, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione e dell’Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
2000-2001 Assistant Professor, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
1993-2000 Assistant Professor, Facoltà di Sociologia, Università di Urbino
1991-1992 Instructor, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna-Forlì

August 18 – 24, 2019 Faculty member at the IFK-Sommerakademie “Happy End – Prospekte und Narrationen möglicher Zukunft”, Linz.
June 24 – 28, 2019 Faculty member at the Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy “Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”, Berlin.
Spring 2019 Visiting Professor Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
2017 Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2015-16 Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Visiting Chair in Social Theory – Bielefeld University
2015 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Public Engagement, New York
2014 Guest Professor, Meiji University (Japan)
2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 Visiting Professor, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo (Asti)
2005 Visiting Professor, P.h.D. Program “Globalización económica y sociedad de la information” , University Oviedo
1998-99 and 1999-2000 Visiting Professor, Institut für Soziologie, University Vienna
1999-2000 Professor, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, University Urbino

Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) Berlin, 2019/2020
Fellowship Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University (ZJU-IAS), 2017
Senior Fellowship MECS - Media Cultures of Computer Simulation at Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2016
Fellowship Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, 2014
Visiting Fellowship Institute of Advanced Studies University of Warwick, 2014
Senior Fellowship IKKM - Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie Weimar, 2013-14
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1998-99 (resumption 2002)
Postgraduate Fellowship University Bielefeld, 1989-90
CNR-NATO postgraduate Fellowship, 1988-89
EC Summer University Fellowship, Berlin, 1988
DAAD postgraduate Fellowship, University Bielefeld 1986-88

Volkswagen Foundation – Planning Grant Proposal 2019 “Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse” – Co-PI (1.500.000 Euros)
ERC Advanced Grant 2018 “The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing” – PI (2.084.429 Euros)
PRIN 2017 MIUR “Artificial Intelligence and Legal Studies Perspectives” – Co-PI.
Volkswagen Foundation – Planning Grant Proposal 2019 “Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse” – Co-PI (250.000 Euros).
The Leverhulme Trust, International collaborative network “Performances of Value: Competition and Competitions Inside and Outside Markets” between CIM at Warwick, IOA at Copenhagen Business School, CSO at Sciences Po, CSI at Ecole des Mines, DCE at UNIMORE - Co-PI. http://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/valueperformances/
PRIN 2009 MIUR “I valori socio-giuridici nell’attuale fase di adattamento costituzionale a seguito dell’allargamento dell’Unione Europea: un approccio socio-sistemico” – local referent Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Economia, University Modena e Reggio Emilia

2017 - Archiv für Mediengeschichte (Fink Verlag – München)
2015 - Literature – Culture – Economy (Peter Lang Verlag - Frankfurt am Main)
2014 - Editor of Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology (Il Mulino – Bologna)
2014 - Filosofie dell‘economia e Coincidentia Oppositorum (Mimesis Edizioni – Milano)
2012 - Teoria sociale (Orthotes – Salerno)
2007 - Trivium. Franco-German journal of the humanities and social sciences (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme – Paris)
2003 - Erwägen Wissen Ethik (Lucius & Lucius – Stuttgart)
2000-06 Soziale Systeme (Lucius & Lucius – Stuttgart)
1992-95 Editor of Teoria sociologica (Angeli – Milano)

2019 - Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS), University Bielefeld
2017- Associate Member of the SFB 1288 “Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing the World“, University Bielefeld (D)
2017- Member of the Board of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna
2014 - Member of the Advisory Council of the Zentrum für interdisziplinären Forschung (ZiF) of the University Bielefeld (D)
2017- Member of Board of the Dottorato in Sociologia e ricerca sociale , University Bologna
2013 - 2014 Member of Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (D)
2010 - 2015 Member of Board of the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche, University Modena e Reggio Emilia
2010-2017 Member of the Lenkungsgremium Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien, DFG

Curriculum Vitae as of January 2021