Elisa Negri

Professor of Industrial Plants Management and of Data Modeling & Analysis for Complex Systems at Politecnico di Milano. She researches on digital twins for manufacturing. In international scientific communities she is Vice-chair for Social Media in IFAC TC5.1, Associate Editor in Flexible Services & Manufacturing and Track Chair in ANNSIM2024. She co-authored 50+ scientific publications.

Bianca Maria Colosimo

She is Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. Her main research interest is in the area of big data mining for advanced manufacturing. She serves on EU committees designing strategic roadmaps for manufacturing (e.g., Manufuture, ESA) and sits on the boards of several international scientific journals. Selected among the 100 […]

Flaviano Celaschi

Director of the Advanced Design Unit at the University of Bologna, he co-founded and directed the first Italian university department of Industrial Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan (2001). As a consultant and researcher for numerous organizations and companies in the field of industrial innovation, he is the author of over 120 publications on […]

Giuseppe Lotti

Giuseppe lotti is full professor at DIDA UNIFI, Coordinator of the Ph.D. program in Sustainability and Innovation for the design of the built environment and the product system, and President of the Bachelor’s Degree Course in Product, Interior, Communication, and Eco-Social Design at the University of Florence. He has strong competencies in Design for sustainability, […]

Pierluigi Barbaro

Research Director at the Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo Metallici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze. PhD in chemistry at the University of Firenze. One-year post-doctorate researcher at ETH Zurich and two-year at the University of Firenze. Member of the Network of Excellence IDECAT and Coordinator of the Initial Training Network NANO-HOST (EC VII° FP). […]

Sergio Terzi

Sergio Terzi is Full Professor of Industrial Technologies at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Group, as well as Associate Dean at the Graduate School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. For over 20 years, he has been carrying out research in the field of manufacturing innovation, the related digital […]

Federica Bondioli

President of the National Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM). She is the author or co-author of over 190 publications in international journals and has delivered more than 60 presentations at national and international conferences. She has been and is responsible for several funded research projects at the European, national, and regional levels, collaborating […]