Giorgio de Michelis

Prof. Giorgio De Michelis teaches Informatics for Organizations and Interaction Design at the University of Milano – Bicocca, where he has served as Head of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communications from 2002 to 2007.

Giorgio De Michelis teaches also Interaction Design at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Italian Swiss – Lugano and he is member of the Faculty of the Master in Business Design at Domus Academy in Milano.

His research focuses on models of concurrent systems (Petri Nets), and computer supported cooperative work, community-ware, knowledge management and interaction design, where his group has developed prototypes of support systems for cooperative processes and knowledge management systems (CHAOS, UTUCS, MILANO, CAMPIELLO, KLEE&CO, MILK, ATELIER).

He is contributing to the research of his Department on e-government and information systems for Government and Public Administration.

He is also actively contributing to the Italian debate on industrial policy, with particular attention to the IT sector, to the Italian system of excellent small-medium enterprises, leading market segments in several sectors of b2c and b2b markets, and to the mutual relations between them.

Giorgio De Michelis has authored four books and more than 160 papers in the areas of his interest.

Giorgio De Michelis is vice-president of Fondazione IRSO, a research institute devoted to the study of socio-technical systems, industrial innovation and government organization, where he chairs the Scientific Committee. Giorgio De Michelis has created in 2008 Itsme, a spin-off of the University of Milano - Bicocca, devoted to the design and construction of a newly conceived Linux-based operating system for workstation.