Micol Spitale is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Polimi), as well as a Visiting Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, her research has been focused on the field of Social Robotics, exploring ways to develop robots that are socio-emotionally adaptive and provide ‘coaching’ to promote wellbeing. She has collaborations with prestigious international institutions such as KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), University of Cambridge, and University of Southern California. Previously, she was a PostDoctoral Researcher at the Affective Intelligence & Robotics Laboratory (AFAR Lab) of the University of Cambridge. In October 2021, she successfully achieved her Ph.D. (in Information Technology, Computer Science and Engineering Area) from Politecnico di Milano, with "cum laude" honours. During her Ph.D., she also spent several months as a visiting Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California (USC) in the Interaction Lab. She is a member of the ELLIS Society.