SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Massimiano Bucchi
Massimiano
Bucchi is Professor of Science and Technology in Society at
the University of Trento, Italy and has been visiting professor in several
academic and research institutions in Asia, Europe and North
America.
His publications include Science in society
(London and New York,
Routledge, 2004), Handbook of Public
Communication of Science and Technology (with B. Trench, London
and New York,
Routledge, 2008), Beyond Technocracy.
Citizens, Politics, Technoscience (New
York, Springer, 2009, published also in Chinese) and
essays in journals such as Nature and
Science. He has received several
recognitions for his work, including the Mullins Prize awarded by the Society
for Social Studies of Science (1997) and the Merck-Serono special jury award
for science books (2007).
He has served as advisor and evaluator for several research and policy bodies,
including the US National Science Foundation, the Royal Society, and the
European Commission, and has chaired the programme of the XIIth world
conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology (2012).
He regularly contributes to newspapers La Repubblica
and Tuttoscienze-La Stampa.
