Federico Casalegno, Ph.D., is the Director of the
MIT Mobile Experience Lab and Associate Director of the MIT Design Laboratory. Since 2008, he has been the director of the
Green Home Alliance between MIT and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy. He is adjunct full professor at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy.
A social scientist with an interest in the impact of networked digital technologies in human behavior and society, Casalegno both teaches and leads advanced research at MIT and designs interactive media to foster connections between people, information, and physical places using cutting-edge information technology.
Casalegno holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Communication from the Sorbonne University, Paris V, with a focus on mediated communication and social interaction in networked communities and wired cities.
