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Dr Paolo Dini

Senior Visiting Research Fellow

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Dr Paolo Dini is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications. He recently worked on the EINS (European Internet Science) Network of Excellence (funded by DG-CNECT), the OpenLaws.eu STREP (funded by DG-JUSTICE), and on the ERC project Heteropolitics (PI Alexandros Kioupkiolis, University of Thessaloniki).

Dr Dini received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State University in 1990. He taught undergraduate physics at Carleton College and St Olaf College, Minnesota, while consulting and researching in wind turbine aerodynamics, 1992-97. In 1997 he started working as a Senior Scientist for a wearable computer company and continued working in hardware R&D; at Philips Research Laboratories, in Redhill UK, until 2001. He was then a research group leader at the MIT Media Lab Europe in Dublin, 2001-03. In 2003 he joined the Department of Media and Communications, working as Scientific Coordinator of the DBE EU Integrated Project. He currently divides his time between LSE, where he pursues mainly social science research topics, and the School of Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire, where he pursues mainly mathematical and theoretical computer science research topics.

In social science, Dr Dini is interested in studying social theory, economic theory, monetary theory, and political theory and how they apply to bottom-up socio-economic phenomena such as complementary currencies, which can be seen as 'laboratories of institutional learning'. He is also interested in the study of epistemology and interdisciplinarity, in the social construction of technology, and in how all of the above relate to media in theory and in practice.

Expertise

Complementary currencies; the political economy of sustainable development