Current Position
Tenure-track researcher in sociology and science and technology studies.
2025 – National Scientific Habilitation as “Associate Professor” in Cultural Sociology (area 14/C2; GSPS-06/A).
Since 2025 - Member of the STS Lab, coord. Prof. A. Pelizza, Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna / Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University
Research interests include investigating the role of technology in organizational dynamics in relation to digital infrastructures, national and transnational organizations, and European integration, with a focus on security, migration flows, and the environment. Previous research includes the analysis of collective memory between dynamics of recognition and identity claims emerging following the end of Italian colonial occupation in Libya; forms of religiosity and non-conventional medical-therapeutic practices in contemporary Piedmont between traditional Catholicism and magical-iconographic devotion.
Research Impact (as of November 3, 2025)
Google Scholar H-Index: 9; Citations: 261
Scopus H-Index: 6; Citations: 80
Web of Science H-Index: 6; Citations: 60
Participation in national and international academic research groups
• Research Associate at the University of Tours, France, at CITERES Cités, TERritoires, Environnement et Sociétés, Laboratoire CNRS Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7324, under research unit EMAM Équipe Monde arabe et Méditerranée: https://www.univ-tours.fr/recherche/animer-larecherche/nos-unites-de-recherche/umr-7324-cites-territoires-environnement-et-societes-citeres. Personal profile: https://citeres.univ-tours.fr/loschi-chiara/. From 01-09-2020
• Participation in the international research group “Innovation in Information Infrastructures”, based at the University of Oslo, Norway. This network explores studies on communication mechanisms and processes enacted by data and information infrastructures, from a multidisciplinary perspective including approaches based on social studies of science and technology, information systems studies, digitalisation and health studies, organisational studies, ICT4D, CSCW, gender studies. The network includes: University of Oslo, University of Bologna, University of Aarhus, University of Edinburgh. From 16 09 2024.
• Participation in the international research group called Kyōsō, a project funded by the University of Bologna (Call for proposals ‘Incentives for collaborative activities of departments with universities in the United States, Canada and Japan’), PI Claudio Coletta, Department of Philosophy (FILO), University of Bologna. Project involves: UNIBO Bologna Unit: Department of Philosophy (FILO), Department of Architecture (DA); University of Tokyo, Department of Urban Land Use Planning, Prof. Akito Murayama. Transdisciplinary network involving research groups of FILO: "Governance of and by Infrastructures" (GOBI; climate governance, population governance and digitalisation processes of society) "Filo x AlmaClimate" (climate change and the Anthropocene from the SSH perspective); FILO PhD "Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics" (PSCS).
FIELDWORK RESEARCH
- Oct 2025. Tokyo, Japan. Kyōsō, research network PI C. Coletta, University of Bologna (UniBo): Cooperation with prof. Akito Murayama, the University of Tokyo, Urban Land Use Planning Unit. Unibo “Incentivi per le attività di collaborazione dei dipartimenti con università di Stati Uniti, Canada e Giappone”.
- Sep 2024. Tunis, Tunisia. PRIN Project SHUT-MED: Securitizing Human Transit across the Central Mediterranean migratory corridor: shifting mobility governance discourses and practices in Italy, Malta, Libya, and Niger”.
- May 2017/Sep 2018. Tunis, Tunisia. CNRS Researcher based at French IRMC Tunis, Tunisia. Horizon2020 Consortium “EUNPACK Good intentions, mixed results”. Case of Libya.
- 2013 – 2016 Tunisia. Fieldwork for PhD thesis. Affiliated to Institut superieur des technologies de l’environnement de l’urbanisme et de batiment ISTEUB, Université de Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Supervisor: prof. Y. Turki; IRMC Tunisia. 13 months.
- 20-27 Sept 2010. Louga, Senegal. Coordinator of mission to for EU Youth in Action program and CISV - Comunità Impegno Servizio Volontariato – Turin, Italy.
- “Jeunes, Reporters et Migrants”, EU Youth in Action program (2007/2013). Action 3.2. Partners: Paralleli, Turin, Italy; FESFOP (Festival International De Folklore Et De Percussions De Louga) Louga, Ouahigouya local radio (Burkina Faso), Altermondes Parigi. https://short-link.me/161t9
- June 2010. Tripoli, Libya. MA fieldwork research.
