Senior Research Strategist and founding partner, Katalabs, Palo Alto, California, 2009-2011.
Research Strategist and founding partner, OurBricks, Palo Alto, California, 2010-2012.
Expert presenter, planning exercise on “The Future of Higher Education,” Herman Miller Corporation, Zeeland, Michigan, April 2005.
Expert witness in international patent dispute for University of California, Fenwick & West, 2004-2007.
Awards won by the Piaggio Fast Forward gita robot (selected)
2017 Good Design Award
2017 MITx Award, Disruptive Genius category
2017 Disruptor Daily: Top 100 Most Innovative and Disruptive, Robotics category
2018 Beazley Best Designs of the Year, Design Museum (London)
2020 Red Dot award for “Best of the Best” in innovative new products
foundation and research center boards
Member of Comitato Scientifico, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy, 2023-.
Member of Advisory Board, Fondazione Edison Orizzonte Sociale, Milan, Italy, 2021-.
Ambassador, National Innovation Centre Ageing, Newcastle, UK, 2020-.
Member of Advisory Board, Gramsci Center for Humanities / Centro di studi gramsciani, Scuola superiore di storia di San Marino, San Marino, 2020-.
Member of Comitato Scientifico, Centro Studi Interuniversitario Guido Gozzano-Cesare Pavese, University of Turin, 2021-.
Member of Advisory Board, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities @ Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) [Austrian Academy of Sciences], Vienna, 2016-2019.
Member of Comitato Scientifico, Siena candidata a Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019, 2013-2014.
Visionary Committee, Board Member, Boston Book Festival, 2012-2013.
Consultant, Rice University Press evaluation and planning visiting committee, Rice University, April 2010.
Member of advisory board, “Our Americas Archive Partnership,” Rice University/U of Maryland Research project funded by IMLS, 2009-2011.
Member, Study Center Consultative Committee, Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal, Canada, 2008-.
Member, Comitato scientifico, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Design and Architecture, Milan, Italy, 2005-2007.