In 1968 he obtained a Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering cum laude, from the University of Genoa. Tutor: Prof. Giuseppe Biorci. In 1970 he started a collaboration with Prof. Emilio Bizzi at the Psychology Department of the M.I.T., first as a post-doctoral fellow (1970-72) and then as a Visiting professor (1973-1978).

His academic career at the Engineering Faculty of the Genoa University started in 1970, as an Assistant Professor, and then proceeded as Associate Professor and Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering until retirement (2009). During that time he was in charge of many courses, for engineering and medical students, he was Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Robotics (1991-97), Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Bioengineering and Bioelectronics (1998-2000), and Chairman of the Course of Study in Biomedical Engineering (1998-2009). He was tutor of a large number Master and PhD theses. For a decade (1995-2005) he was Scientific director of a Bioengineering Lab, integrated in the Hospital of Arenzano, that allowed bioengineering students to carry out projects of immediate clinical interest.

His research has been funded by a number of national and international grants, in particular EU supported programmes, since the very beginning in 1984 (early ESPRIT projects).

Awards: Marconi Co. Ltd Chelmsford UK (1968); Fullbright fellowship (1973); NATO fellowship (1978); Honeywell HUSPI Prize (1984); ZIF fellowship, Bielefeld, Germany (1999); Commendatore Repubblica Italiana (2000); JSPS fellowship, Tokyo, Japan (2009).

Scientific interests: neural control of movement, motor learning, neuromotor rehabilitation, robot-therapy, computational neuroscience, biomimetic humanoid robot control.

Author of 6 books, over 400 publications (https://sites.google.com/site/pietromorasso/), with an h-index of 45, i-10 Index of 126, and a total number of citations of 12177 (January 1, 2018).