Massimiano Bucchi#
Photo: R. Bicego
| Membership Number: | 5828 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://mb.soc.unitn.it/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - 2015 Full Professor of: Sociology of Science; Communication, Science and Technology
- Director, International Master Programme in Communication of Science and Inovation
- 2000 - 2015 Lecturer and Associate Professor, Facoltà di Sociologia, Università di Trento
- 1997 - 2000 Post-doctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Trento
Fields of Scholarship
- Science communication
- Sociology of science
- Science and technology in society
- Sociology of technology and innovation
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Prize “Florence Ambassador” for the XII world conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology
- 2014 “La Vigna” International Library Book award to Il Pollo di Newton. La Scienza in Cucina
- 2011 International Book Prize “Calabria” to Scientisti e antiscentisti (il Mulino)
- 2007 Merck-Serono prize for science books, Special Jury Award to Scegliere il mondo che
- vogliamo. Cittadini, politica, tecnoscienza (il Mulino)
- 1997 Nicholas Mullins Award, international prize given by the Society for the Social Studies of Science for the best essay by a young researcher
- 1996, 2000 RAI (Italian Public Television) award for research in mass communications
