Over eighteen years in occupational health, working across the UN system, European research institutions, and field studies in Europe and North America.
I am a Certified European Ergonomist and occupational health researcher. Over eighteen years I have studied how people work, how their bodies and minds respond to occupational conditions, and how systems can be redesigned to be safer and more sustainable. Strategic foresight is a discipline I developed in parallel over the last six years, through the Humanity Centered Future Lab of the Italian Society of Ergonomics (SIE), and which I brought directly into my work at the ILO on the future of occupational safety and health to 2050.
Organisations come to me when they need to turn complex, uncertain trends, technological, social, environmental, about the future of work and health into structures they can act on: scenarios, roadmaps, risk frameworks, and training programmes grounded in evidence.
My work spans three areas that inform one another: the science of preventing work-related harm, the technology that lets us measure it, and the foresight to anticipate how both will change.
The science of preventing work-related harm.
My foundation. Over eighteen years assessing and preventing biomechanical and psychophysical risks across manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, healthcare, and office environments, from field campaigns to global evidence synthesis.
Contributor to systematic reviews on occupational exposures (dusts, fibres, ergonomic risk factors), published in Environment International.
On-site occupational health studies across three countries: agricultural workers in Colorado (vegetable pickers, milking parlour operators) and in Italy (tractor drivers, forestry loggers, healthcare workers, milkers), and truck drivers in Belgium.
Methods: observational risk assessment, validated OSH protocols, systematic review, WHO/ILO evidence standards, D.Lgs. 81/08 compliance.
Measuring the body at work, in real time.
How new sensing technologies are changing our ability to monitor, predict, and prevent work-related health risks, and the methodological and ethical questions they raise.
Studies on stress, sleep, and fatigue in professional drivers using commercial and research-grade wearables. See publications.
Design and validation of measurement protocols across occupational and clinical settings.
Devices & signals: Zephyr BioHarness, EEG, ECG, cortisol, actigraphy, motion sensors; Fitbit, Garmin, WHOOP.
Anticipating how work and health will change.
246 experts · 5 ILO regions · 4 alternative futures to 2050
Participatory futures methods applied to occupational health, the future of work, and health systems, turning uncertainty into structures organisations can act on.
Designed and delivered the first global participatory foresight programme on occupational safety and health in the UN system. Mobilised 246 respondents across five ILO regions, producing four alternative futures, 41 validated signals, and 18 priority drivers now informing the ILO's next Global OSH Strategy.
Methodological study on the use of virtual reality for stakeholder immersion in institutional foresight processes. Submitted to Futures.
The permanent SIE working group I lead: ERGOFUTURES, Home Care Foresight and Proximity Care Foresight. See the full Lab section below.
Methods: hybrid Delphi, STEEP analysis, participatory horizon scanning, scenario matrix, cross-impact analysis, VR-based stakeholder immersion.
Looking for a research partner on occupational health, wearable monitoring, or a foresight programme? I design and lead the full process, from study design to validated, publishable results.
Discuss a research collaboration
I co-founded the Lab with Angelo Rondi and lead it as a permanent working group of the Italian Society of Ergonomics. Its purpose is to give ergonomics a way to look ahead: to read how work, health and technology are changing before those changes harden into problems.
Human-centered design asks what a single user needs today. The Lab widens that question in space and time, towards communities, organisations, the environment and the generations that will inherit the systems we design now. The result is a methodological bridge between ergonomics, strategic foresight and humanity-centered design, producing anticipatory tools for organisations, institutions and the research community.
A participatory foresight process on the future of ergonomics in Italy, with a 2050 horizon. The first phase, horizon scanning, opened in October 2026: SIE members and practitioners act as Scouts, reporting the weak signals they observe in their daily work.
Participatory foresight study on how technology will reshape home care over the next 20 years. Published in Ergonomics (2024), with a follow-up paper submitted to Futures. Paolo Campanella Award 2023 (SIMM National Congress), Honourable Mention at the World Usability Day Design Challenge 2023, oral presentation at HCII Washington DC 2024.
STEEP scanning, scenario development and cross-impact analysis of 29 trends shaping proximity care systems, leading to a SMART policy roadmap to 2050. Submitted to Health Policy.
SIE Award for the best contribution in scientific methodology and impact
XIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Ergonomics, Ivrea 2026, for the Lab's foresight work.
Scenarios and weak signals that show where work and health are heading.
Anticipatory governance that helps organisations and institutions act before change becomes crisis.
Humanity-centered design applied to the work systems of the future.
What if every product came with a label that told you not just its carbon footprint, but its full impact on human health, animal welfare, and the living systems we all depend on? And what if that label were built not by a certification body, but by the communities it is meant to serve?
IDEAL, short for humanIty centereD onE heAlth Label, is that idea in research form. The project, developed as a KU Leuven IDEALAB grant consortium, applies humanity-centered design and One Health principles to a concrete challenge: creating a dynamic, democratic, blockchain-enabled sustainability label that gives every consumer, company, and researcher the tools to make choices that are good for people, animals, and the planet.
IDEAL is not a finished product. It is a research agenda, a coalition-building exercise, and an open invitation. The IDEALAB phase brought together eleven researchers across biosystems, bioeconomics, media studies, public governance, and environmental science. The next step requires a broader consortium and EU-level funding to move from concept to protocol.
If you work in One Health, circular economy, digital health, human-centered design, behavioral science, or sustainability governance, and you see yourself in this project, I would like to hear from you.
What IDEAL aims to do
Design the label with citizens, companies, policymakers, and researchers from the start, not after the fact.
Connect human, animal, and environmental health data in a single, transparent, open-access framework.
Reward sustainable choices with credits. Build an economy where doing good is also doing well, for everyone.
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Full list available on request, or via Scopus (ID 57192907886) · ORCID · LinkedIn.