I am Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento. Previously, I was Associate Professor (RTD-A) at the Field Robotics South Tyrol (FiRST), working on autonomous mobile robot navigation in the field. From 2018 to 2022 I served as PDRA and Senior Researcher in robot navigation at the Dynamic Robot System lab of the Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, UK. From 2014 to 2018 I was member of the Dynamic Legged System (DLS) lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, where I received my PhD in Bioengineering and Robotics in 2017. I have received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.

My research interests lie in all aspects of mobile robot autonomy in harsh environments, including but not limited to field robotics,
mobile robot perception, model predictive control, autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, and legged robotics.