Andrea Lampis

He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Udine (Italy), where he is responsible for the courses Ecological Transitions, Citizenship and Cultural Landscapes, Sociology of Vulnerability and Processes of Repair, and Sociology of Sustainability Processes. Previously, he was a Full Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), affiliated with the School of Politics, Economics, and Business (EPPEN) at the Osasco campus.His research program, Governance and Justice in Contemporary Sociotechnical Transitions, aims to develop research from a comparative perspective between the Global North and South regarding the major sociotechnical transformations of the present. Questions about the characteristics, implications, and governance of these transformationsparticularly those involving interactions between materiality, risk, and societyare approached in this research program through the lenses of social justice, the valorization of differences and rights, and guided by the pursuit of reducing social, economic, and gender inequalities. From this focus, the program addresses the climate crisis, energy transformation, the normalization of disasters and precarity in our societies, the dehumanizing affirmation of Artificial Intelligence, the commodification of urban space under the banner of smart cities, and the need to reflect on a New Ecology of Repair. Between 2018 and 2022, he carried out his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of São Paulo (USP) on Energy Governance in the São Paulo Macrometropolis. The research, funded by FAPESP (20182022), was extended in 2023 without a scholarship and was part of the Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis in the Face of Climate Variability. From 2018 to 2021, he also took part in the international postdoctoral program of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). Andrea Lampis holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2009). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)