Mario Coccia is a prominent social scientist and Research Director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), based in Turin, where he leads cross-disciplinary investigations into the origins, evolution and diffusion of technology, and their impact on society, environment, and human health .

Earning international acclaim, Mario Coccia has been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University (2022–2023) and is consistently recognized by Research.com—#5 globally in Technological Innovation, #4 in COVID‑19 studies, and ranked top‑10 in Italy for social sciences & humanities. His interdisciplinary career includes visiting scholar roles at Arizona State University, RAND Corporation, Georgia Institute of Technology, and fellowships at Max Planck Institutes.

Coccia’s prolific output includes 580+ peer‑reviewed publications and over 25,000 citations. His work is known for rigorous statistical modeling, technometrics, and empirically‑based approaches to:

Measuring technological change and innovation cycles (e.g., technometric scales analogous to seismic scales)

Exploring the societal impact of public debt on health‑care system resilience during COVID‑19.

He investigates how environmental contamination, climate pressures, and technological infrastructures co-evolve with disease dynamics. Other research domains include AI in medicine, sustainable development, and complex system interactions spanning nanomaterials to global ecosystems.

A recognized leader in science policy and technometrics, Mario Coccia's expertise lies at the intersection of science, technology, and society, with notable contributions to health-care policy analysis, innovation measurement methodologies, and quantitative evaluation models for public research institutions

span the interdisciplinary intersections of science, technology, innovation, health, and society. His work focuses on the origins, evolution, and measurement of technological change, including technometrics, innovation cycles, and R&D performance. He is particularly known for creating models that analyze how science and technology co-evolve with social and environmental systems. Coccia extensively investigates the impact of innovation on economic growth, public policy, and healthcare resilience, especially in the context of crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. His research also explores the dynamics of emerging technologies, artificial intelligence in medicine, and environmental sustainability, examining how these elements influence global development. Through quantitative and empirical methodologies, he assesses public research organizations, evaluates innovation policies, and proposes theoretical frameworks that bridge scientific progress and societal needs. His transdisciplinary approach contributes to shaping science policy, forecasting technological trends, and improving strategic decision-making in public and private sectors.