Dr. Angelo Fasce

About the person

Angelo Fasce is a philosopher and psychological scientist whose research focuses on the intersection of risk perception, scientific scepticism, and health behaviour. Since 2025, he has been working at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt as part of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Within the EU-funded project JITSUVAX, he developed practical tools for communicating with vaccine-hesitant patients, including training programmes for healthcare professionals at institutions such as the University of Coimbra and the Observatoire Régional de la Santé (France). His publications include works on the demarcation between science and pseudoscience and individual differences in the acceptance of scientific findings.

His expertise includes the philosophy of risk, health communication, psychometric assessment, and the analysis of attitudes towards vaccination, antibiotics, and cognitive enhancement. He is also the founder and head of the international research network "PseudoLab", which focusses on the dissemination of pseudoscientific beliefs.

Curriculum Vitae

About the research project

"The role of divergent conceptions of risk in the acceptance of misinformation around vaccination, antibiotics, and cognitive enhancement"

Angelo Fasce's research at the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB) focuses on developing a theoretically and empirically grounded model for capturing individual understandings of risk. The aim is to better understand how varying perceptions of risk are linked to health-related behaviours, such as vaccine refusal, inappropriate use of antibiotics, or the non-medical use of cognitive enhancers 

The project combines foundational philosophical inquiry with psychometric modelling and international comparative studies across Europe, Latin America, and Africa. It thus offers new insights into how individual risk perceptions shape societal behaviour – a central concern of the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour.

Duration of the Humboldt Scholarship: 1 July 2025 - 31 December 2026