Federico Pilati

Federico Pilati is a research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. 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. His research involvement also includes the role of research assistant in the PRIN2015 "Media and Terrorism" and in two Horizon 2020 projects, "inDICEs" and "EUMEPLAT". Currently, his fellowship is financially supported by NRRP (NGEU) funds within FAIR partnership. His research revolves around LLM and Generative AI, exploring the potentiality of repurposing these tools as methods to enhance and innovate social research.