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