Cristiano Codagnone joined IPTS in October 2009 as a Senior Scientist to work mainly in the area of eHealth.  He has a degree in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University (1995). Between 1992 and 1994 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science, and from 1995 until 2000 he worked as contract professor at the Institute of Sociology of Bocconi University.  He also completed his post doctoral study at Utrecht University in 1996. From 2000 to 2003, he was a faculty member at the Department of Social and Political Studies, Milan State University and from 2003 to 2004, he served as a Project Officer in the United Nations’ “eGovernment for Development” programme.  

Since 2004, he has carried out several studies and research projects on eHealth, eInclusion and eGovernment for DG INFSO. He combines an understanding of technologies and technological developments in the field of the Information Society with a fine grained economics and sociological approach, which enables him to uncover the relationships between technologies, economics and societal change and their policy implications. He is an expert in evaluation and impact assessment in the domain of Information Society where he commands both quantitative and qualitative methods. He has also managed for DG INFSO important foresight and future-oriented studies and possesses solid foresight methodological expertise. Finally, he has state-of-the-art knowledge on issues related to user acceptance and appropriation of technologies