Education
2013 Abilitazione Scientifica Nationale Italy SPS/08 and SPS/07
2001 Habilitation University Bielefeld
1990 P.h.D. University Bielefeld
1987 Laurea Philosophy University Bologna (summa cum laude)
1983 Laurea Sociology University Bologna (summa cum laude)
Academic Appointments
2016- Full Professor, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld
2019- Full Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali - Università di Bologna
2001-2019 Associate Professor, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione e dell’Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
2000-2001 Assistant Professor, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
1993-2000 Assistant Professor, Facoltà di Sociologia, Università di Urbino
1991-1992 Instructor, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Bologna-Forlì
Visiting assignments
Spring 2022 and 2019 Visiting Professor Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
August 18 – 24, 2019 Faculty member at the IFK-Sommerakademie “Happy End – Prospekte und Narrationen möglicher Zukunft”, Linz.
June 24 – 28, 2019 Faculty member at the Stanford–Leuphana Summer Academy “Against presentism. Historicizing mediality”, Berlin.
2017 Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2015-16 Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Visiting Chair in Social Theory – Bielefeld University
2015 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Public Engagement, New York
2014 Guest Professor, Meiji University (Japan)
2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 Visiting Professor, Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo (Asti)
2005 Visiting Professor, P.h.D. Program “Globalización económica y sociedad de la information” , University Oviedo
1998-99 and 1999-2000 Visiting Professor, Institut für Soziologie, University Vienna
1999-2000 Professor, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, University Urbino
Fellowships and Awards
Finalist of the Prize Libro dell'Anno sull'Innovazione of the Galileo Festival della Scienza e dell'Innovazione (https://www.galileofestival.it/libro-dellanno-sullinnovazione/) for the book „Comunicazione artificiale“.
Falling Walls 2021: Winner in Social Sciences and Humanities. https://falling-walls.com/people/elena-esposito/
Fellowship Auerbach Institute for Advanced Study at Cologne University, 2021
Fellowship Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) Berlin, 2019/2020
Fellowship Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University (ZJU-IAS), 2017
Senior Fellowship MECS - Media Cultures of Computer Simulation at Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2016
Fellowship Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, 2014
Visiting Fellowship Institute of Advanced Studies University of Warwick, 2014
Senior Fellowship IKKM - Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie Weimar, 2013-14
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1998-99 (resumption 2002)
Postgraduate Fellowship University Bielefeld, 1989-90
CNR-NATO postgraduate Fellowship, 1988-89
EC Summer University Fellowship, Berlin, 1988
DAAD postgraduate Fellowship, University Bielefeld 1986-88
2020- Member of Academia Europaea
2009 Ladislao Mittner Award, DAAD and Ateneo Italo-Tedesco
1993 Lelli Award for the best sociology thesis for L’operazione di osservazione
Grants
ERC Advanced Grant 2018 The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing – PI (2.084.429 Euros)
2023-2026. PI of the WP 8.4: The Social Implications of AI: Data and Models, Acceptance and Use of Generative AI and ADMs, in the project FAIR – Future Artificial Intelligence Research of the Extended Partnership: Artificial Intelligence. Fundamental aspects of the NRRP In Italy, Financed by Next Generation EU with altogether 110 million euros.
2022-2025. Co-PI of the project DEMOPE: Democracy under Pressure, Italian Ministry for University and Research (PRIN 2020 MIUR).
2021- Collaborative Research Center (TRR 318) Constructing Explainability, Universities Bielefeld and Paderborn, CO-PI Project B01 “A dialog-based approach to explaining machine learning models”
Volkswagen Foundation – Grant 2021 Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse – Co-PI (1.500.000 Euros)
PRIN 2017 MIUR Artificial Intelligence and Legal Studies Perspectives – Co-PI.
Volkswagen Foundation – Planning Grant Proposal 2019 “Unbiased Bots That Build Bridges (U3B): Technical Systems that Support Deliberation and Diversity as a Chance for Political Discourse” – Co-PI (250.000 Euros).
2016-2018 The Leverhulme Trust, International collaborative network Performances of Value: Competition and Competitions Inside and Outside Markets between CIM at Warwick, IOA at Copenhagen Business School, CSO at Sciences Po, CSI at Ecole des Mines, DCE at UNIMORE - Co-PI. http://blogs.cim.warwick.ac.uk/valueperformances/
PRIN 2009 MIUR “I valori socio-giuridici nell’attuale fase di adattamento costituzionale a seguito dell’allargamento dell’Unione Europea: un approccio socio-sistemico” – local referent Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Economia, University Modena e Reggio Emilia.
Participating researcher in the Application for the Foundation of the Central Scientific Institute for Studies of Science (ISoS) at University Bielefeld, 2023.
Participating researcher in the Proposal for a Research Unit Uses of Uncertainty. The Science and Society Perspective, DFG, 2023.
Participation as PI in the Proposal MODUS for a Cluster of Excellence, University Bielefeld.
Member of Editorial or Advisory Boards
2014- Editor in chief of Sociologica. International Journal of Sociological Debate (Il Mulino and University Bologna) https://sociologica.unibo.it/
1992-95 Editor in chief of Teoria sociologica (Angeli – Milano)
2021- Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (Weizenbaum Institute of the Networked Society)
2017- Archiv für Mediengeschichte (Fink Verlag – München)
2015- Literature – Culture – Economy (Peter Lang Verlag - Frankfurt am Main)
2014 - Filosofie dell‘economia e Coincidentia Oppositorum (Mimesis Edizioni – Milano)
2012- Teoria sociale (Orthotes – Salerno)
2007- Trivium. Franco-German journal of the humanities and social sciences (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme – Paris)
2003- Erwägen Wissen Ethik (Lucius & Lucius – Stuttgart)
2000-06 Soziale Systeme (Lucius & Lucius – Stuttgart)
2023- Member of the team of Academic Experts in the Scoping Workshop Towards a new UNU institute on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Managing Human Habitat Change, Bologna.
2022- Member of the AI Ethics Advisory Board by the Institute for Experiential AI Northeastern University
2022- Member of the Steering Committee of the project Re-Konstruktionen, Deutsches Historisches Institut Rome and Villa Vigoni Zentrum Menaggio
2022-Member of the Steering Committee of Jean Monnet Module EU.C.L.I.D.E. - European Contract Law In Digital Environments for citizen empowerment
2020-2021 Member of the Academic Committee of the The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences
2020- Member of the Board of the Dottorato Reggio Childhood Studies, University Modena e Reggio Emilia
2019- Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I
2SoS), University Bielefeld
2018- Member of the commission zum Akademienprogramm of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2017- Associate Member of the SFB 1288 “Practices of Comparing. Ordering and Changing the World“, University Bielefeld (D)2017- Member of the Board of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK) in Vienna2014- Member of the Advisory Council of the Zentrum für interdisziplinären Forschung (ZiF) of the University Bielefeld (D)
2017- 2019 Member of the Board of the Dottorato in Sociologia e ricerca sociale, University Bologna
2013- 2014 Member of the Board of the
Institute for Advanced Study in Media Cultures of Computer Simulation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (D)
2010- 2015 Member of the Board of the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche, University Modena e Reggio Emilia
2010-2017 Member of the Lenkungsgremium Medienwissenschaftliche Symposien, DFG
2022– Evaluator of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Grants2017– Evaluator of the HERA Joint Research Programme 2017– Evaluator of the LOEwe Initiative of the Land Hessen2015- Evaluator of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
2023- Evaluator of the Fondo italiano per la Scienza (FIS)
2013 - Referee for ERC Advanced Grants
2010- 2015 Member of the Evaluation Committee Villa Vigoni Project
