Education

B.A. in Sociology, with honours, at the University of Trento (1980).
Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2001.
Academic career and teaching activities

Poli teaches Social Foresight and Epistemology of the Social Sciences
Memberships in societies and scientific committees

AFI-Associazione dei Futuristi Italiani (President)

-skopìa (President)

Editor in chief of Axiomathes (Springer)

Member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Futures and European Journal of Futures Research

Editor of the series Anticipation Science (Springer)
Awards and honours

UNESCO Chair in Antiicpatory Systems