Architect and Communication Designer, is Associate Professor of the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano. He founded and directs the Center for Design at Northeastern University, coordinated the Communication Design programme at Politecnico di Milano, where he has been also a member of the board at the PhD in Design. At Politecnico he founded, and co-directs, the DensityDesign Lab, an award-winning research laboratory doing research on data visualization and information design.

His research focuses on the design transformations that help make sense of data and information to improve decision making processes, especially with non-expert stakeholders and for controversial complex social issues. He also works in developing tools and methods to understand and orient the evolution of design as a discipline and a practice, in the frame of a meta-design approach and with a focus on emerging technologies, including AI.

He is author of best-paper awarded publications, lectured at Royal College of Arts, ENSCI Les Ateliers, Glasgow School of Arts, king’s College and Stanford Humanities Centre and has been invited to talk at conferences such as Eyeo, TEDx, Visualized, NetSci, Congreso Futuro. He's partner at The Visual Agency, Senior Affiliate at Harvard metaLAB and co-editor at Big Data & Society – SAGE Journals.