Monica Bordegoni is full professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano since 2004. Her research interests include methods and tools for virtual prototyping of products, multisensory interaction, haptic interaction, emotional engineering and creativity in product design, user experience. She is member of the Executive Committee of the ASME-CIE Division, and co-chair of the DesignSociety SIG on Emotional Engineering. She is the coordinator of the international School on Virtual Prototyping. more

Gaetano Cascini is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano since 2008. His research interests cover Design Methods and Tools with a focus on the concept generation stages both for product and process innovation. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science and of the International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation. He is also Chair of the “Computer-Aided Innovation” WG of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). He is coordinator of the Marie Curie- IAPP- FORMAT project.

Giorgio Colombo is associate professor at Politecnico di Milano. In 1989, he started his research activities at ITIA-CNR in Milan. From 1992 to 2000, he has been assistant professor at Faculty of Engineering of Parma. Since 2001 he is associate professor. His research activities focus on: shape modelling, Knowledge Based Engineering, Computer Aided Design, Simulation techniques, Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, robotics. He has been coordinator and responsible for the research unit activities in national and European research projects.

Gabriele Guidi (MS degree in Electronic Engineering in 1988, PhD in 1992) joined the University of Florence as researcher in 1995 and moved to Politecnico di Milano in 2004 where he is now Associate Professor. He worked for more than 10 years on researches about ultrasound equipment for biomedical imaging. Since 2000 he reoriented his activity by applying imaging technologies to the field of non-contact 3D measurements, exploring applications in various fields such as Cultural Heritage and Industrial Design.

Giandomenico Caruso is Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano since 2008. He received a Ph.D. in Virtual Prototypes and Real Products from Politecnico di Milano in 2009 and a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from Università della Calabria in 2004. His research interests focus on the development and on the validation of emerging technologies, related to Virtual and Augmented Reality, to support the development of industrial products. more

Mario Covarrubias is Assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. In year 2010, he received a PhD degree from Politecnico di Milano for a research activity on aesthetic shapes evaluation based on haptic interface collocated with a stereoscopic visualization system. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Pachuca in 1996, and received a Master degree in Manufacturing Systems from ITESM-MTY in 2002. His research interests focuses on virtual prototyping, visualization systems and haptic interfaces. more

Francesco Ferrise is Associate Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. He received a Ph.D. in Virtual Prototypes and Real Products from Politecnico di Milano in 2010 and a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from Università della Calabria in 2005. His research interests focus on multisensory interaction, haptics and virtual prototyping. more

Serena Graziosi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanics of Politecnico di Milano. From December 2009 until December 2011 she worked as a Mechanical Technologies Specialist within the Innovation Department of Indesit Company. She took her Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Università Politecnica delle Marche. As a visiting student she spent 5 months at the MIT Department of Mechanics. Her research interests are: engineering design methods, technology forecasting and management techniques and strategies for capturing and measuring the user experience.

Niccolò Becattini is a research fellow of the Department of Mechanics of Politecnico di Milano since 2009.  He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He also works as a teaching assistant for classes of Technical Representation Methods and Methods for Systematic Innovation. He is currently working on national and international funded projects. His researches focus on different topics concerning the domain of Innovation: Computer-Aided Innovation, Engineering Design, Problem Solving Theories and Methods, Technology Forecasting and Creativity. 

Marina Carulli is Post-Doc fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano since 2008. She is a product designer and received a Ph.D. in Virtual Prototypes and Real Products at Politecnico di Milano. Her research interests include design methods, integration of tools for Virtual Prototyping within the product development process, emotional engineering in product design. From 2006 to 2008, she performed research on design-driven product innovation and design methods at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano and at the Mechanical Engineering Department of UNSW (Sydney, Australia). 

Francesco Furini is a fellow at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, with a thesis entitled: "Automation of CFD simulations related to biomedical applications". In 2008 he received a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are related to finite element modeling, computational fluid dynamics and hemodynamics, multi-objective optimization, Computer Aided Design and Knowledge Based Engineering. He supports teaching activities in Design and Methods for Industrial Engineering.

Sara Gonizzi holds a Research Grant at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. After the Degree in Archaeology at the University of Rome in 2003, she achieved a Master in Cartography in 2005, a PhD in GIS in 2008 and a Research Grant from 2010 to 2011 at the University of Trieste. Since 2008, her interests regard the use of technologies employed in the field of Cultural Heritage and in particular 3D modelling with photogrammetry and laser scannig.

Aurelio Montalto is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano since November 2014.
He has received his bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering and his M.Sc degree in Material Engineering both from Politecnico di Milano. He has gained expertise in mechanical design, production techniques and process management, thus being able to address the entire productive process with a wide vision. His PhD research activities focus on the study, modeling and optimization of products and productions in the eyeglass sector, and are funded by Luxottica.

Dedy Ariansyah is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano since November 2014. He received his M.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universitas Indonesia in 2013, where he conducted a research aiming at developing Augmented Reality (AR) applications for machining simulation of 3-axis CNC milling. His current research interest focuses on developing Virtualization systems for assisting the product design process.

Weibin Ding is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano since November 2014. He has received his Bachelor degree in Arts from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art - Fudan University in 2010, and the M.Sc degree in Design & Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2014. He has been a student member of the Italian Industrial Design Association (ADI) and he has been granted with two utility-model patents during the master period.His current research interests include multisensory user experience and intelligent wearable device.