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Grateful to collaborate with Noosware NV as visiting researcher on the development of emotional aware mobile robotics.

The work Sweet Robot O’Mine - How a Cheerful Robot Boosts Users' Performance in a Game Scenario has been accepted for presentation at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023) in Busan, Korea.

The workshop WARN: Weighting the benefits of Autonomous Robot persoNalization has been accepted for inclusion in the 32nd IEEE RO-MAN 2023 conference in Busan, South Korea.

The CONCATENATE workshop gave me the opportunity to present my work ''An Interaction-centric Approach to Metrics in Social HRI'' during the Human-Robot Interaction conference 2023 HRI2023 held in Stockholm, Sweden.

The highschool Liceo Statale Ghandi in Casoria, Italy invited me to give a talk on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

I presented my work named Exploring Non-Verbal Strategies for Initiating an HRI in the interactive poster session of the International Conference of Social Robotics ICSR2022 held in Florence, Italy.

The work named On The Emotional Transparency of a Non-Humanoid Social Robot was presented by me during the interactive poster session of the International Conference of Social Robotics ICSR2022 held in Florence, Italy.

I co-presented the work named Familiar Acoustic Cues for Legible Service Robots in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive (ROMAN2022) held in Naples, Italy.

The local newspaper ForliToday interviewed me about how my career developed in Italy as well as in Germany and how I feel about the future of Robotics and AI.

Had the chance to interact for two hours with (former) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder. They visited the MIRMI lab at the TUM, where I was Research Assistant.

The work on closed-loop Human-Robot Handshake gained attention in several newspaper Corriere di Siena, il cittadino online.

The work The Role of Closed-Loop Hand Control in Handshaking Interactions has been awarded as Finalist for Best Paper Award in HRI at the ICRA 2019 conference.

The bank La BCC Ravennate Forlivese e Imolese awarded me with a grant of 1000€ for my academic results.

The students of my former high school in Forli ITE Matteucci were presented with my career, where I had the opportunity to share my experience as a researcher and my passion for robotics.