Francesca Tosi, Architect, is Full Professor of Industrial Design at Department of Architecture - DIDA, University of Florence. Currently developing her research and didactic activities in the fields of Product and Interior Design, Ergonomics in Design, Design for All. In particular on: daily use products and environments, and products and services for health and care.
On the same subjects: she is author of numerous books, essays and articles on topics; she organized conferences and events, and was scientific responsible of research programs funded by the Italian Ministry of University, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and by public administrations.
See is currently responsible for research projects funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme, the Tuscany Region, and by pubblic and private enterprise. From 1996 to 2007 she was Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Since November 2007 she is full professor at the Faculty (now Departmen) of Architecture,University of Florence.
She is currently: President of Degree Course in “Industrial Design” (since 2012). Responsible of "Design” address of the PhD in "Architecture", University of Florence (from 2011). Director of “Master in Ergonomics, of envinronment, products and organizations” (from 2011). She is also: Member of the GL "General Principles" of the “Ergonomics" Commission of UNI, Ente Italiano di Unificazione, within she was standard coordinator of UNI 11377-2010 "Usability of industrial products". National President of the SIE, Italian Society of Ergonomics (since 2010).