Daniele Pucci earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in Control Engineering with highest honors from Sapienza, University of Rome, in 2007 and 2009. He completed his PhD in 2013 with a thesis prepared at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. From 2013 to 2017, he worked as a postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), focusing on the balancing problem of the iCub humanoid robot.