Adriana Valente, jurist and sociologist, is a research director of the CNR-IRPPS, in the research group Social Studies on Science, Education, Communication (COMESE), whose main aim is the understanding and valorisation of the relationships between science, politics and society. Her research interests include: relationship between evidence and decision-making processes; education, science teaching and participation in scientific debate; science communication and the scientific community; representations of international migration and representations of migrants in textbooks and the media.

On these topics she wrote around two hundred scientific publications to your credit.

Adriana Valente has taught in various national universities and coordinated European research projects.