Giovanni Berselli (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Modena, Modena, Italy, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 2009. He is currently a Full Professor and Chair of Design Methods for Industrial Engineering with the University of Genova, Genoa, Italy, where he coordinates the Ph.D. degree in mechanical, energy and management engineering. He is also an Affiliated Researcher with the Advanced Robotics Department, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova. He held Visiting Professor positions at Monash University, University of Navarra, University of Twente, German Aerospace Agency - DLR, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research interests include the design, modeling, and experimental evaluation of robot hands and grippers, compliant mechanisms and soft actuators for safe human–robot interaction, and energy-aware industrial robotics. Dr. Berselli is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Chair of the ASME Italy Section, and the past Chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Modeling, Dynamics, and Control of Adaptive Systems.