Federico Pilati is adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and research associate at the Medialab of the University of Geneva.
He obtained an European Doctorate with honours from IULM University in Milan, defending a thesis titled "One Pandemic, Many Controversies. Mapping the COVID-19 'Infodemic' via Digital Methods". Throughout his doctoral studies he has been involved in establishing the Infodemic Observatory, a project co-funded by the Bruno Kessler Foundation and the World Health Organization, and he visited the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS in Paris in 2021 and the Medialab of the University of Geneva in 2023.
As a research assistant he has participated at the PRIN2015 "Media and Terrorism" and collaborated with the Horizon 2020 projects "inDICEs" and "EUMEPLAT". He has also been a research fellow of the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project, funded by NRRP.
He has served as teaching assistant for master's level courses, including "Big Data and Digital Methods" at the University of Milan and "Media, Power, and Society" and "Cultural Sociology" at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Additionally, he contributed to the co-design of the KU Leuven MOOC on "Developing Digital Transition Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions", where he instructs two modules on the attention economy and on digital cultural production.
His works have been published in journals such as Nature Scientific Reports, Social Science & Medicine, and New Media & Society. He has presented his research at national and international conferences including IC2S2, CCS, NetSci, Europeana, ESS, ILIS, SISP, ComPol, and SICSS. Additionally, he has contributed as a peer reviewer for journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Social Science Computer Review, Social Science & Medicine, Data & Policy, Marketing Theory, and First Monday.
