I was born in Florence on March 26, 1970. I received my MS (Laurea) degree in Electronic Engineering in 1993 and my PhD degree in Control Engineering in 1997 from the University of Florence, Italy. During the academic year 1996/97 I visited the Center for Robotics and Automation, Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St.Louis, MO. In 1997-1999, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where I collaborated as a senior researcher until 2002. Between 1999 and 2009 I was with the University of Siena, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, where I became an associate professor in 2005. Since 2010, I am an associate professor at the University of Trento.

Main research interests: hybrid systems, model predictive control, optimization, automotive control, financial engineering, polyhedral computation, wireless sensor networks, robotics.

IEEE Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems (HYSCOM)   (Read article)

Curiosity: My Erdös number is 3
(Paul Erdös is a famous matematician, born on March 26, 1913, died on September 20, 1996)

3rd WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems
Siena, July 7-9, 2009

2nd HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems
Siena, July 16-19, 2007

10th Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Pisa, April 3-5, 2007

1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems
Siena, July 19-22, 2005