Prof. Piero Dominici is a sociologist, philosopher, educator and systems thinker. He is founder and scientific director of the International Research and Education Programme CHAOS: Complex Human Adaptive Organizations & Systems. He collaborates as an expert with the European Commission JRC Group and is Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science and Executive President of the Board of Directors of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI). He is a member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Vice President of the World Complexity Science Academy LatAm, and UNESCO IPL & UN Expert and invited speaker, as well as an Official UNESCO Delegate.
He holds a PhD in “Social Theory and Research” from Sapienza University of Rome, and is Associate Professor at the University of Perugia, where he teaches Education Towards Complexity and Unpredictability, Sociology of Social Complexity, Public Communication, Sociology of Culture and Communication and Intelligence, Networks, and Complex Systems. He has been accredited as Full Professor from the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
As scientific researcher, educator, author and international speaker, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (Hyper)complexity, Transforming Education, Transdisciplinarity, Complex Systems and Knowledge Sharing. For almost thirty years, in addition to teaching and striving to rethink and reinvent education, he has been conducting scientific research in the fields of Education, Systems Theory, Technology, Innovation, Intelligence, Human Security, Citizenship and Communication.
To date, he has written eight monographs, including the 2014 work: Dentro la Società Interconnessa. Prospettive etiche per un nuovo ecosistema della comunicazione [Inside the Interconnected Society. Ethical prospects for a new ecosystem of communication], winner of the 2018 Elisa Frauenfelder International Scientific Award, section “Culture and Innovation”, and the original Italian version of this volume: Oltre I Cigni Neri. L'urgenza di aprirsi all'indeterminato, Franco Angeli, Milan 2023, with a foreword by Edgar Morin. His latest book, Emergent Properties. Qualitative Social Dimensions and New Epistemological Challenges in the AI Era, was published in Italy in 2024.