CERRONI ANDREA

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Sociology of Culture and Communication (SPS/08)
Office phone
Room:
  • U07, Floor: 3, Room: 3112

Biography

Andrea Cerroni is a sociologist of knowledge and heads the Master in Communication of Science and Sustainable Innovation (www.MaCSIS.unimib.it). Graduated in Physics and with experience as a Controller in high-tech companies, he was the National Delegate Representative for Italy in the Programme committee - Science in society for the 7th European Framework Programme. Associate Professor since 2016, in 2018 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in the scientific-disciplinary field SPS/08 "Sociology of cultural and communicative processes". Among his research interests:

  • sociology of technology
  • democracy and knowledge
  • contemporary sociological imagination
  • theoretical-methodological foundations of social science
  • theory of the knowledge-society
  • risk perception and communication.

Publications

  • Cerroni, A. (2023). L’Università finisce. Taylorismo della mente fra marketing e burocrazia. RIFLESSIONI SISTEMICHE, 28, 50-63. Detail

  • Carradore, R., Cerroni, A., Nicolaci, M. (2023). La comunicazione scientifica come mediazione tra esperti e cittadini. Lezioni apprese durante la pandemia. In M. Calloni (a cura di), Pandemocrazia. Conoscenza, potere e sfera pubblica nell’età pandemica (pp. 83-103). Il Mulino. Detail

  • Cerroni, A. (2022). Città come fabbrica del garbo: per un neoumanesimo tecnologico. In G. Polizzi (a cura di), Resilienza o trasformazione? Atti del convegno in onore di Marco Dezzi Bardeschi (Firenze, 11 e 12 novembre 2021) (pp. 103-105). Sesto San Giovanni : Mimesis. Detail

  • Cerroni, A. (2022). Contemporary Sociological Theology. The Imagination that rules the World. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar [10.4337/9781800882904]. Detail

  • Cerroni, A. (2022). Techne, logos e utopie: Ripensare la fabbrica del mondo per un umanesimo tecnologico. CAMBIO, 12(24), 1-18 [10.36253/cambio-13297]. Detail

Research projects

VIROPLANT - VIROME NGS ANALYSIS OF PESTS AND PATHOGENS FOR PLANT PROTECTION
Year: 2018
Call: 2016-067 - H 2020- SFS-17-2017
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Awards

Awards

  • Opera Prima, Dipartimento di Sociologia, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1998

Editorial boards

  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - , 2009
  • Direttore di rivista, collana editoriale, enciclopedia - , 2007 - 2010

Research and teaching assignments

  • Attivita' didattica - Sociologia della scienza, Master in Comunicazione della scienza, Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati ISAS-SISSA (Trieste), 2004-2005. - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di TRIESTE, 2004 - 2005
  • Attivita' didattica - Visiting Professor (Erasmus+) University of Ljubljana, 11-15/12/2017. - Univerza v Ljubljani, 2017

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - “European Sociologies of Knowledge. Traditions, Exchanges, Perspectives”, Mid-Term Meeting – RS05 Sociology of Knowledge European Sociological Association (ESA), Milan 30-31/08 2018., 2018
  • Program chair - Membro dello Steering Committee per il Workshop “Impact, Evaluation and Accountability”, Roadmapping “Science in Society” - European Science Foundation, Cnrs Paris, 30/06-1/07 2009., 2009