PhD Training Week - MODULE 5

Speakers for this event

• Federico Neresini

  Federico Neresini

  Professor of Digital Sociology

  University of Padua

  Federico Neresini (PhD) is Professor of Digital
  Sociology at the University of Padua, where he also teaches Sociology of Innovation.
  He is the coordinator of the PhD Programme in “Social Sciences” and the PaSTIS research Unit (Padova Science, Technology and Innovation Studies – www.pastis-research.eu),
  within which he is leading in particular the TIPS project (Technoscientific
  Issue in the Public Sphere – www.tipsproject.eu/tips). Graduated in Sociology, Neresini obtained a PhD in
  Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. He is a co-founder of
  STS-Italia (Italian Society of Social Studies on Science and Technology) and a
  member of the scientific committee of the journal “Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia”
  and “Tecnoscienza”. His main research interests are in the field of science and
  technology studies, in particular on construction processes of scientific
  knowledge and on science in the media, mainly focusing on biomedical research,
  nanotechnology and other emerging technoscientific domains. During the last
  years his research activities are also addressing the relationship between
  big-data and scientific research activities, as well as the implications for
  the social sciences of the availability of large amounts of digital data
  through the web. He has published essays and articles in many international
  journals (among which Nature, Science, Public Understanding of Science, European
  Journal of Social Psychology, Science Communication, PLOS ONE).

  Professor of Digital Sociology