Research Director of the National Research Council of Italy. Responsible for the CNR Research Unit “Social Studies of Science, Education, Communication”, involved in several national and international projects in the fields of science and society, engsgement and science education, relationships between research and policy, and sociology of communication. Main Projects Responsibilities include CNR National coordination of the FP7 project REPOPA, of the International Research Project “Implicit values in textbooks - representations of migration” and responsible for the SCE Unit of the FP7 project Scicafe 2.0. Main memberships included membership as National Expert of the “Information Society Forum”, WG2 “Social and democratic values, culture and the future of new services and the media”. Contract professor in several Italian Universities (Rome Sapienza and Lumsa, Naples Partenope, Macerata). Component of the School Commission of the Italian National Academy of Science.