I am Italian and Swiss, I live in Milan and I work in Switzerland. I've been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006, mainly about contemporary African art. As volunteer, I have been chair of Wikimedia Italia (2020-2024), chair of the Wikimania Committee since 2017, lead of Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016 (our world gathering in a mountain village of 700 inhabitants over Lake Como), national coordinator of GLAMs for Wikimedia Italia (2024), and coordinator of the Esino Lario since 2009. I am a member of Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia CH, co-funder of the associations and .
Here are the initiatives I'm currently involved in and here my past projects. Here my COI.

I am senior researcher and head of the research area "Culture and Territory" at the Institute of Design, Department for Environment Constructions and Design at . At SUPSI I am also involved in Open Science and member of SUPSI board.
I have been scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2012 and I conceived and directed in 2011 "Share Your Knowledge: Wikipedia and Creative Commons for cultural institutions".
I am an art historian with a master degree at the Catholic University of Milan and I have two PhD titles in "Social anthropology and ethnography" at the EHESS in Paris and in "Territorial government and planning" at the Polytechnic of Milan.