Francesco Amigoni was born in Soresina (CR), Italy, on December 2, 1971. He got the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1996 and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering and Automatica from the Politecnico di Milano in 2000. From December 1999 to September 2000 he has been a visiting scholar at the Computer Science Department of the Stanford University (USA). From February 2002 to April 2007 he has been an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. From May 2007 he is an associate professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests include: agents and multiagent systems, mobile robotics, and the philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. He is author of about 50 papers published on international journals, books, and conference proceedings.