Federico Bosia graduated in Physics in 1997 and obtained a PhD in Mechanical engineering in 2002 at EPFL (Switzerland). He is now Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Torino. He has published over 100 papers in leading international journals on the mechanics of bioinspired and structured materials, on elastic waves and metamaterials. He is currently involved in a FET Open project on “Bioinspired Hierarchical Metamaterials”.