Associate Professor, Università del Salento
Engineer, Associate professor in Applied Mechanics at University of Salento (UniSalento), Department of Engineering for Innovation. Visiting professor at Imperial College of London, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Visiting scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (CBN-IIT). Head of the Advanced BioInterface Technologies Laboratory @CBN-IIT, and of the Advanced Driving to X Simulation Laboratory @UniSalento. Expert in tribology of machines and biotribology, microrobotics, soft sensors and actuators, biointerfaces, soft mechatronics, vehicle mechanics.