«Educating the youth of today to deal with the complexity of tomorrow»

Biography

Since September 2017, director of the Department Education and Learning (Dipartimento Formazione e Apprendimento, DFA) of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana, SUPSI). The SUPSI-DFA is the University of Teacher Education of Southern Switzerland. Mathematician (ETHZ). PhD, Postdoc and advanced research activity in the field of human knowledge modeling at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA). Eight years of experience as member of the Executive Board, head of education and senior teacher-researcher in Mathematics Education at the SUPSI-DFA. Sixteen years of teaching and research experience in Mathematics and Mathematics Education at tertiary and secondary level: from 2001 to 2003 secondary school teacher, from 2002 to 2009 lecturer in Mathematics at the university of Lugano (USI), from 2003 to 2009 teacher and researcher in Mathematics at the Department of Innovative Technologies (Dipartimento tecnologie innovative, DTI) of the SUPSI. From 2010 teacher and senior researcher at SUPSI-DFA.