Short Bio

In 2006 I graduated cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia. I then moved to Genova where I started my PhD at the newly founded Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). There, I worked on the hardware of the iCub humanoid robot under the supervision of Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini.

After obtaining my PhD I served as the hardware lead of the iCub project as a PostDoc from 2010 and as a Technologist from 2016. In 2019 I became the coordinator of IIT's manufacturing and design unit.

In 2025 I joined IHMC (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL) as Senior Research Scientist and Hardware Lead.