He served as general chairman of the IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control (Brescia, 2012) and of the IFAC Workshop on Internet Based Control Education (Brescia, 2015). He has served as IPC chairman of the Second, Third and Fourth Edition of the International Conference on Event Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing (Krakow 2016, Funchal 2017 and Perpignan 2018). He has been also the IPC chairman of the IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control (Gent, 2018). He has also served as IPC member of many international conferences.

He is Specialty Chief Editor of the Control and Automation Systems section of Frontiers in Control Engineering, associate editor of IET – Journal of Engineering and associate editor of Proceedings of the IMechE Part I: Journal of Systems & Control Engineering.

He has participated to many national and international research projects. In particular, he was the UNIBS coordinator in the I-MECH project "Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems", funded by the ECSEL JU.

His research interests include industrial controllers, mechatronics, dynamic inversion based control, fractional control, anesthesia control.