He graduated in 1997 in Architecture with a project of Industrial Design published as an excellent thesis by the Politecnico di Torino.
Specializing Master Degree in Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano.
PhD in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano.
Since 2005 he develops his research and teaching activities at the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. He is Professor in Design.
Director of Master degree course in “Design for Product Engineering and Innovation”.
Director of Master degree course in “Premium design management”.
Director of Master degree course in “Design for Architecture” at Politecnico di Milano.
He was a lecturer at the Politecnico di Torino from 2003.
Founder of the course, he is Dean and professor for the Laurea Magistrale in Design&Engineering at School of Design of Politecnico di Milano.
Co-ordinator of several research projects concerning design-driven innovation, for IDEA (InnovationDEsign Action) research group at Design Department. Since 2013 he is a member of Products, Services and Strategies research group.
He was Rector Delegate for International Relationships and former responsible for the Italian participation in the Sino-European Design Management Network.
He is member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Peano.
He is Vice President of the GDIO Global Design Industry Organization.
Head of Company Relations at School of Design.
CEO and Chair from 2009, from 2023 is Past President in charge for Institutional Affairs at POLI.design, the post-graduate School in Design of Politecnico of Milano.