Michele Lanzetta

Full Time Associate Professor at the Department of Civil & Industrial Engineering of Pisa University (2005-, app. 2008), qualified as Full Professor (2018 & 2014).
He received his MBA in Innovation Management from Scuola Sant’Anna of Pisa (1992).
At Pisa University
- he received his MEng degree in Aeronautical Engineering (1992) with Erasmus thesis at Sup'Aéro,
- his PhD in Industrial Automation and Robotics (1997) on Industrial Applications of Artificial Vision Systems,
- he served as Assistant Professor (1998-, app. 2001),
- he his Council member of: PhD Program in Industrial Engineering,
- Research Centre "Enrico Piaggio"

Author of 150+ scientific and technical publications, 50+ WOS&Scopus indexed, with 1200+ citations on: Artificial Vision, Scheduling, Metrology and Additive Manufacturing

He was Visiting Scholar for a total more than three years at:
- University of Tokyo (2006) awarded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science of the Ministry of Research,
- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on
--Magnetorheological Fluids (2011) and Non Newtonian Fluid Based Gripper with Dr Karl Iagnemma (2014) as Italian coordinator in MIT MISTI UNIPI exchange program,
--Nanometric Positioning with Prof. Martin Culpepper (2009),
--Three Dimensional Printing (2000) and
--Gold Metal Sintering (2002) with Prof. Emanuel Sachs,
- at Stanford University on
--Robotic Climbing (2004),
--Shape Deposition Manufacturing (2007) and
--Mass Manufacturing Gecko inspired controllable dry adhesives (2018) with Prof. Mark Cutkosky and
--Stereo Vision with Prof. Carlo Tomasi (1996), and
- Lecturer of Partial Differential Equations I at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2009)

Consulted
- Panasonic Japan (2016),
- GKN (2016-, 300k€),
- world champion Jaked swimwear (2009),
- ICI NStarch & Chem, IronFox, Salvatori, CGS, PGC, Pisa Hospital, Pisa County.
Patented a reflectometer for the inspection of stone polishing (2007) commercialized by world leader Breton

Associate member of the International CIRP Academy (2007-2022)

AITEM member, received the Innovation in Teaching award (2005) and is coordinator of the National Interest Group on Additive Manufacturing (2013-2023, 150+ profs/experts)

Coordinator or Principal Investigator in
- 5 European and 2 National competitive Projects
- the CAFRE Interdepartmental Center (150+ profs from 20 depts)

Vice President of the Industrial/Management Engineering Undergraduate & Graduate Program (1000+ students, 2016-2019) and member of the Mechanical and Energy Engineering Programs

Full list of papers
Scopus
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004924409
WOS
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-9599-2012
Scholar
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=zsKAjqsAAAAJ