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Rafael Pardo receives the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2022

• The Professor of Sociology and director of the BBVA Foundation has focused part of his studies on scientific and technological culture, the social dimensions of artificial intelligence, innovation and organizations
• He has published more than 50 articles and chapters in specialized works, is co-author of three international books and has conducted 29 surveys, many of them international.

Madrid, November 28, 2022. The Professor of Sociology (on leave) at the Public University of Navarra and A1 Researcher (on leave) at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography of the CSIC, Rafael Pardo Avellaneda, has received the National Award of Sociology and Political Science 2022, after an academic and professional career of more than 40 years.

The current director of the BBVA Foundation has focused part of his studies on the measurement and comparative analysis between societies of scientific culture and attitudes towards science, especially regarding biotechnology and other developments in the life sciences; the social dimensions of artificial intelligence; business organizations and innovation, as well as issues of methodology and statistics in social sciences.

Regarding empirical research, Pardo has conducted 29 surveys - 19 of them international - on values, scientific culture, environmental culture, vision of geopolitical issues, among other topics. During 1992 and 1993, he co-designed the European Union's first major survey of European countries' knowledge and views on science: 'Europeans, Science and Technology: Public Understanding and Attitudes'. Furthermore, in 1993 he worked under contract with the European Commission on a comparative analysis of knowledge and attitudes towards science in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan, the results of which were presented at an international meeting in Berlin (1996) organized by the European Commission. and later published in book form.

Pardo has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, most of them in international journals. He is co-author of international books such as Embryo Research in Pluralistic Europe (1993); Pharming. Promises and Risks of Biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants and animals (2009); Synthetic Biology Analyzed (2016); Public perceptions of science and technology: A comparative study of the European Union, the United States, Japan, and Canada (1997). He is co-editor with Emilio Lamo de Espinosa and Javier Tusell of the work, Between two centuries. Reflections on Spanish democracy (1996) and Ecology, industrial relations and business (1994) with Manuel García Ferrando.

In collaboration with Michael Greenacre, he has developed the conceptual and formal bases of the variants of the statistical technique of Correspondence Analysis, labeled as 'Simple Subset Correspondence Analysis' and 'Multiple Subset Correspondence Analysis', available in statistical packages such as R and XLSTAT, for the analysis of subsets of a data distribution.

Pardo has been awarded an Extraordinary Bachelor's and Doctorate Award at the Complutense University. He was Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Complutense University (1987-1991), Fulbright-MEC Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1987 to 1989), Professor of Sociology, UNED (1991-93). ); Professor of Sociology, Public University of Navarra (1993-1996); Visiting Scholar (1996) and Visiting Professor (1998), Stanford University; A1 Researcher at the Institute of Economics, Geography and Demography of the CSIC (1996-2000). He was president for a three-year period of the Social Sciences Conference of the National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (1996-1998).

He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the RIS (International Journal of Sociology) for three years; principal investigator of the Study of the INTEL company in the United States, 'American Views and Uses of Technology' (1996); member of the Social Council of the Autonomous University of Madrid (for a five-year period).

He currently belongs to the Advisory Board of the Autonomous University of Madrid, has also been part of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the CSIC since 2010 and is a member of the Editorial Board of the 'Journal of Science Communication'.

The jury for this award, which made the decision unanimously, was made up of the president of the CIS, the Professor of Sociology, José Félix Tezanos, the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid and Professor , Esther del Campo García, Professor of Sociology at the National University of Distance Education, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales, Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Constanza Tobío, Full Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University , María José Mateo Rivas, Professor of Sociology and National Sociology Prize 2018, María Ángeles Durán Heras, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid and National Sociology Prize 2019, Inés Alberdi, Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and former president of the Center for Sociological Research, Cristóbal Torres Albero, and the Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Miguel Beltrán.

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