Italian Institute of Technology

Faculty Member, Advanced Robotics

Team Leader

About

Andrea Brogni graduated in 1998 as Electronic Engineer in Microelectronics, at the University of Pisa, Italy, with a thesis in Virtual Reality applied to Cultural Heritage. He has been working in the Engineering and Computer Science field since then, working as Research Fellow at Scuola Superiore S. Anna, in Pisa, Italy, University College London, in London, UK, and at the Virtual Reality Center of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in Barcelona, Spain. He's honorary Research Fellow at UCL in London.

He is currently Team Leader at the Advanced Robotics lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy. He has been involved as consultant on large variety of European projects, doing research in robotics, 3D graphics and Virtual Reality systems.

His major research interests are the human reactions and interactions in Virtual Environments, including vision, touch and audio. He's also interested in technology transfer to industry.