2025 IEEE RoboSoft Competition - finalist and third place

Adjunct Professor for the course of “Soft Robotics”, Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) - Session Chair Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Member of the Consiglio di Amministrazione del Consorzio Polo Tecnologico Magona

Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Administrative Committee (AdCom)

PhD evaluator - University of Southern Denmark

PhD evaluator - University of Twente

Scientific evaluator - Italian National Research Council (CNR) “Research Unit Goal-Oriented” (URGO) proposals, 2024 – 2025

Scientific evaluator - Schmidt Science Fellows 2024 - 2025

Zonta Amelia Earhart Award

2nd place price for poster presentation at the workshop “Soft Growing Robots: From Search-and-Rescue to Intraluminal Interventions” at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), May 29 – June 2, London, UK . Poster title "GrowBot: Towards a new generation of plant-inspired growing artefacts" at the

Adjunct Professor for the course of “Soft Robotics”, Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

Back Cover Image of issue 34(28), July 2024, of Advanced Functional Materials

Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2024

Deputy Editor for Soft Robotics Journal