Massimiano Bucchi (born Arezzo, 15 May 1970) is an Italian sociologist, writer, and professor of science and technology in society at the University of Trento (Italy).

He obtained his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute.

[3][4][5] He is the author of papers in international journals such as Nature, Science, PLOS ONE, and several books published in more than twenty countries.

Through articles published in the leading Italian newspapers and collaboration with television programmes (SuperQuark, RAI)[6] he has contributed to popularizing social studies of science and technology.

In 2012 he organized in Florence, Italy, the XIIth world conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST).