Andrea Rubin, Ph.D. in Sociology, organization, culture at the Catholic University of Milano. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Ferrara. He attended a Post-Graduate Course in Science Communication at International School in Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste. For his final thesis, he won the “best thesis award in memory of Franco Lutman – 2017 edition”. His main research interests deal with Science and Technology Studies (STS), public perception and public communication of science, citizens engagement in the governance of science and innovation. He is journalist and he regularly write for newspaper, magazines and for popular science journals. He edited (with Giuseppe Pellegrini) the editions 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 of Annuario Scienza Tecnologia e Società [Yearbook Science Technology and Society] (ed. Il Mulino).
Andrea Rubin website
Recent publications:
- Rowland, J., Dzimińska, M., Rubin, A., Gaston, E., Diener, L. and Vengut-Climent, E. (2024). What do citizens want? Science communication in the eyes of the public. In Moreno-Castro C., Krzewinska A. and Dziminska M. (eds.) How Citizens view Science Communication. Pathaways to knowledge, Routledge, London.
- Rubin, A., Brondi, S. e Pellegrini, G. (2022). Should I trust or should I go? How people perceive and assess the quality of science communication to avoid fake news, in «Quality & Quantity», https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01569-5
- Brondi, S., Pellegrini, G., Guráň, P., Fero, M. and Rubin, A. (2021) Dimensions of trust in different forms of science communication: the role of information sources and channels used to acquire science knowledge, in «JCOM – Journal of Science Communication», 20 (03), A08.
- Pellegrini, G., and Rubin, A. (2020). The long and winding path of science communication, in Gascoigne, T. et al. (eds) Communicating Science: A Global Perspective, ANU Press, Camberra. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22459/CS.2020
