Giulio Jacucci is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and director of the Network Society Programme at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT).He has been Professor at the Aalto University, Department of Design 2009-2010.

His research field and competencies are in human-computer interaction including: mobile interaction, mediated social interaction, multimodal and implicit interaction, haptics and tangible computing, mixed reality, and persuasive technologies.  Prof Giulio Jacucci has coordinated BeAware FP7 EU ICT that created the award winning EnergyLife application and was featured in Euronews, and currently coordinates MindSee on “Symbiotic Mind Computer Interaction for Information Seeking” He is also co-founder and member of the board of directors of MultiTaction.com MultiTouch Ltd. a leader in interactive modular displays.