Vito Trianni is a permanent researcher at ISTC-CNR. He gained a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2006. Vito has thorough expertise, both theoretical and experimental, in the (automatic) design of collective and self-organising behaviours, especially applied to swarm robotics. Besides engineering robotic systems, Vito’s research activities instantiate a synthetic approach to the understanding of distributed cognitive systems.