
Co-founder and Head of User Experience at FrēStyl
Rome Area, Italy

Co-founder and Head of User Experience at FrēStyl
Rome Area, Italy
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2009 — Present (9 months)
FrēStyl is a web/iPhone service that allows people to find concerts from emerging musicians in their neighborhood.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2009 — Present (9 months)
Lecturer in Digital Art at the Corso di Laurea Specialistica “Radiofonia e Linguaggi Dello Spettacolo E Del Multimediale”
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
November 2004 — July 2009 (4 years 9 months)
(Research industry)
January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Bionets is an EU-funded project exploring the next generation of self-organising wireless networks. For this project I've co-designed an application called undersound, a system to be used in the London Underground that allows people to upload and download CC-licensed music from the stations, and to download music from other users through mobile devices
(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)
August 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 1 month)
For HP I was working on a project called Trustguide, looking at the public perception of trust, security and privacy in relation to a variety of current and future information technologies.
(Research industry)
September 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 1 month)
At MLE I worked on applications for wireless ad hoc networks. Among the projects I worked on: WAND (Wireless Ad hoc Network for Dublin), a testbed for applications installed in the city centre of Dublin and tunA, an application developed for PDAs allowing synchronised music sharing.
PhD , Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management , 2004 — 2009
My PhD dissertation focused on urban computing, using phenomenology to generate a novel categorisation of urban life, in-between-ness, able to guide the design of new ubiquitous computational systems.
Visiting student , Informatics , 2006 — 2007
Laurea (MSc) , Communication Sciences , 1996 — 2001
My Master dissertation focused on interactive television, and the convergence between television and Internet
Erasmus , Media and Communication, Economics , 1999 — 2000