Calogero Oddo has a tenured faculty appointment in bioengineering at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, where he serves as the Principal Investigator of the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory of the Biorobotics Institute. His scientific and technological contributions are dedicated to the investigation of the human sense of touch and the translation of this fundamental knowledge into the development of tactile sensing solutions for intelligent machines able to interact physically with humans, the environment and other machines.