Chiodo Simona

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

She carried out research visits at Harvard University, USA (2003 and 2004), was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA (2014), a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, UK (2016), at the University of Cambridge, UK (2019), and at Karnavati University, India (2025), and an Academic Visitor at Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China (2016), at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (2017), at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2017), at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2018), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA (2022), and at the University of Toronto, Canada (2026).

She is Deputy Dean of the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (ranked sixth in the QS World University Rankings by subject).

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

She supervised the research project “SCRAPS. Writing the Sleep Crisis: 24/7 Capitalism and Neoliberal Subjectivity”, which was funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and whose Principal Investigator was Diletta De Cristofaro, who collected the results of the research project in the volume she edited “Sleep and Its Meanings. Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies” (The MIT Press, 2026).

Her last monographs are “Predicted Humans. Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking” (Routledge, 2024) and “Hacking Death. Life-Extension Technologies and the Fate of Western Culture” (Routledge, forthcoming).