After several experiences in IT research and commercial delivery in diverse industrial domains such as manufacturing, energy, environment, space and defence, since July 2000, Sergio Gusmeroli is the TXT Corporate Research Director (now Research & Innovation Director) counting more than 20 researchers in the labs of Milano, Bari and Genoa. In the specific field of ICT infrastructures and architectures for enterprise interoperability and collaboration, his main research activities have been focusing on the following 3 major themes:

• Platforms and Architectures for Enterprise Software and Applications Interoperability
• Methodologies, models and software tools to support collaborative business
• Methodologies, models and software tools to support the vision of the Future Internet and the Internet of Things

In European Commission FP7 research programme, Sergio Gusmeroli has been Technical Coordinator of the COIN Integrated Project (COllaboration and INteroperability for networked enterprises) and of the TELLME Project (Technology Enhanced Learning Livinglabs for Manufacturing Environments) and is currently Coordinator of the FP7 Factories of the Future MSEE Integrated Project (Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem) and of the FP7 Future Internet FITMAN Phase II Trial about Future Internet Technologies in Manufacturing.
In H2020, Sergio, as Politecnico di Milano’s Research Coordinator, is now Scientific Coordinator of PSYMBIOSYS (Factories of the Future on Product Service Systems) about symbiotic collaboration forms in product-service business ecosystems.