Prof. Dr. Silvia Titotto holds a PhD from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) in Technological Innovation for the Built Environment and PhD in Design & Architecture from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). She is an Associate Professor of the Center for Engineering, Modelling and Applied Social Sciences at the Federal University of ABC with permanent professorship in Design of Technology Innovation. She was a lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy as part of the Corp of Naval Engineers working on the nuclear submarine design. She was a fellow at the Computational Mechanics Laboratory of the USP Polytechnic School. She taught courses on Bioinspired Design and Prototyping at UNESP (Bauru), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Università di Bologna (Italy), Silesian University of Technology (Poland), Riga Technical University (Latvia) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg (Germany). She is the principal investigator of the 4D Printing and Biomimetics (4DB) research group in the CNPq directory and collaborates with interdisciplinary research groups abroad. Since 2001, she has exhibited and curated interactive artworks, responsive prototypes and dance performances in Brazil and Europe, with institutional support and industry sponsorships. She is interested in the following subjects: biomimetics, bioinspired engineering, dance education, dance science, choreography, prototyping, 4D printing, soft robotics and programmable materials.