Antonella Passani holds a first-class degree in Sociology, with a Minor in Cultural Anthropology, and a PhD degree in Social Science. She has more than twenty years of experience in international, interdisciplinary research and innovation projects in which she contributes to or leads all stages of the research process (from research design to the elaboration of policy recommendations and the dissemination of results). Her main fields of research are: socio-economic and political impacts of innovation process, co-design practices, participatory processes, (Digital) Social Innovation, technology for social good and citizen science. In the last ten years she worked extensively on the definition of evaluation and impact assessment methodologies and their testing in different domains paying a special attention to aspects such as social inclusion and equality. Expert in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, she developed an extensive and interdisciplinary knowledge of national and international (especially European) data sources. She has interest and experience in facilitation and co-design techniques.

She is currently Head of Research and partner at T6 Ecosystems. She became a partner at T6 Ecosystems in 2015.  She has been (2014-2016) research officer at the London School of Economics and Social Science (LSE). Before that, she spent 5 years at the Censis Foundation, one of the leading socio-economic research institutes in Italy.