Simona Chiodo is Full Professor of Philosophy at Politecnico di Milano (since January 8, 2018).

She spent research stays at Harvard University, USA (2003 and 2004), was Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA (2014), Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, UK (2016), at the University of Cambridge, UK (2019), and at Karnavati University, India (2025), and Academic Visitor at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China (2016), at TU Delft, Netherlands (2017), at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2017), at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2018), and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2022).

She is Vice-Dean of the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (7th, QS World University Rankings by subject).

She is co-founder of META (Social Sciences and Humanities for Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano), member of the IDEA League Ethics Working Group, member of the Technology Foresight of Politecnico di Milano and former member of the Research Ethical Committee of Politecnico di Milano.

She was the supervisor of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship research project “SCRAPS (Writing the Sleep Crisis: 24/7 Capitalism and Neoliberal Subjectivity)”, PI D. De Cristofaro, whose results are published in “Sleep and Its Meanings. Essays from Critical Sleep Studies” (ed. by D. De Cristofaro, The MIT Press, forthcoming in 2025).

Her last monograph is “Predicted Humans. Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking” (Routledge, 2024, published in the series “Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect” edited by R. Abbinnett and G. Gilloch).

Epistemology: relationship between aisthesis and episteme, epistemological dualism, relationship between reality and ideality, meaning of technology.

Aesthetics: representation, beauty, aesthetics of architecture.

History of philosophy: modern and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, especially analytic philosophy.