Antonio Maffei

Antonio Maffei is an Associate Professor in production system with focus on business models at KTH, Sweden. He served as chair for the XPRES initiative for excellence in production research (2014-2021) and he is now member of the steering group in the newly formed XPRES centrum. He works in the research initiative on sustainable industry and society IRIS at KTH as coordinator for  theArea 1 on Industrial transformation through sustainable digitalization and in collaboration with Area 3 on sustainable energy systems.

He received his PhD in production systems from KTH (Sweden) in 2012, and MSc and BSc from the University of Pisa in Italy in 2004 and 2007 respectively. He received a second PhD degree on pedagogy for higher education from Bologna, Italy in 2021. Associate Prof. Maffei has extensive international experience having been visiting researcher or teacher for a number of institutions worldwide.

His research interests includes sustainable business model for novel automation technologies as well as autonomous system control, assembly systems and technology and cyber-security. Associate Prof. Maffei is also active in pedagogic research and development in the domain of constructive alignment, phenomenography and blended learning. He received the appointment as future leader for strategic educational development at KTH (2022- ).

Associate Prof. Maffei has participated and often coordinated in excess of 10 national and international research projects and he has published over 60 scientific contributions in journals, books and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Associate Prof. Maffei is part of the Swedish Production Academy as well as the Production 2030 network. He was affiliated to IEEE (2007-2014),  a research affiliate of The International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP)  (2012-2018) and he is also registered Professional Engineer in Italy.