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 148 scientific publications, 50 WOS&Scopus indexed, with 1100 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

He is Associate member of the International CIRP Academy. He is AITEM member, received the Innovation in Teaching award (2005) and is coordinator of the National Interest Group on Additive Manufacturing (since 2013, 150+ profs/experts)

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

He was Vice Chair of the Industrial/Management Engineering Undergraduate & Graduate Program (1000+ students) and member of the Mechanical and Energy Engineering Programs