Curriculum Vitae

• 2013 Abilitazione Scientifica Nationale Italy SPS/08 and SPS/07
• 2001 Habilitation University Bielefeld  
• 1990 Ph.D. University Bielefeld  
• 1987 Laurea Philosophy University Bologna (summa cum laude)  
• 1983 Laurea Sociology University Bologna (summa cum laude) 

• 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

• September 2024 Visiting Scholar at Italian Academic Centre, Cornell Tech, New York
• Spring 2022 and 2019 Visiting Professor Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris  
• 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
• 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 Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford, 2025/2026
• Fellowship Auerbach Institute for Advanced Study at Cologne University, 2021 
• 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  

• 2023 Finalist of the Prize "Libro dell'Anno sull'Innovazione of the Galileo Festival della Scienza e dell'Innovazione" for the book "Comunicazione artificiale" 
• 2021 Falling Walls Winner in Social Sciences and Humanities 
• 2009 Ladislao Mittner Award, DAAD and Ateneo Italo-Tedesco  
• 1993 Lelli Award for the best sociology thesis for L’operazione di osservazione

•  2023-2026 PI of the WP 8.4: The Social Implications of AI: Data and  Models, Acceptance and Use of Generative AI and ADMs, in the project  FAIR – Future Artificial Intelligence Research of the Extended Partnership: Artificial Intelligence. Fundamental aspects of the NRRP In Italy, Financed by Next Generation EU with altogether 110 million Euros 
• 2022-2025 Co-PI of the project DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure,  Italian Ministry for University and Research (PRIN 2020 MIUR)
• 2024 Member  of the Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf technische Langfristprojekte of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (link)
• 2021 Collaborative Research Center (TRR 318) Constructing  Explainability, Universities Bielefeld and Paderborn, CO-PI Project B01  “A dialog-based approach to explaining machine learning models”
• 2021 Volkswagen Foundation Grant “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)
• 2019 Volkswagen Foundation – Planning Grant Proposal  “Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse” – Co-PI (250.000 Euros).
• 2018 ERC Advanced Grant “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.
• 2016-2018 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
   

• 2014 - Editor in chief of Sociologica. Italian Journal of Sociology (Il Mulino – Bologna)
• 1992-95 Editor in chief of Teoria sociologica (Angeli – Milano)
• 2021 - Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (Weizenbaum Institute of the Networked Society – Berlin ) 
• 2017 - Archiv für Mediengeschichte (Fink Verlag – München)
• 2015 - Literature – Culture – Economy (Peter Lang Verlag - Frankfurt am Main)
• 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)

• 2025 -  Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Group Funktionen und Folgen Künstlicher intelligenz in der Wissenschafts- und Hochschulorganisation – Organisationsanalyse und Transferentwicklung, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung  
• 2023 - Member of the team of Academic Experts in the Scoping Workshop Towards a new UNU institute on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for  Managing Human Habitat Change, Bologna.
• 2022 - Member of the AI Ethics Advisory Board by the Institute for Experiential AI Northeastern University
• 2022 - Member of the Steering Committee of the project Re-Konstruktionen, Deutsches Historisches Institut Rome and Villa Vigoni Zentrum Menaggio
• 2022 - Member of the Steering Committee of Jean Monnet Module  EU.C.L.I.D.E. - European Contract Law In Digital Environments for  citizen empowerment
• 2020 -2021 Member of the Academic Committee of the The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences
• 2020 - Member of the Board of the Dottorato Reggio Childhood Studies, University Modena e Reggio Emilia 
• 2019 - Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I2SoS), University Bielefeld
• 2018- Member of the commission zum Akademienprogramm of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste 
• 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

• 2023 - Evaluator of the Fondo italiano per la Scienza (FIS) 
• 2022 - Evaluator of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Grants 
• 2017 - Evaluator of the HERA Joint Research Programme  
• 2017 - Evaluator of the LOEwe Initiative of the Land Hessen
• 2015 - Evaluator of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
• 2013 - Referee for ERC Advanced Grants  
• 2010 - 2015 Member of the Evaluation Committee Villa Vigoni Project  

Curriculum Vitae as of April 2025