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Paolo Pedrazzoli is a leading researcher in advanced manufacturing, specializing at the intersection of digital twins, human-robot collaboration, and modular assembly systems. His work is foundational in bridging the gap between physical production environments and their digital counterparts. A key contribution is the development of "Mirrorlabs," an open-source ICT framework that creates accessible Digital Twins of robotic production environments using Mixed Reality. This work, which has garnered 14 citations, demonstrates how to visualize recorded production data in Virtual Reality and utilize state-of-the-art Augmented Reality displays to overlay robot data, making complex systems more intuitive. His early research on "Integrated Computer Aided Design for Assembly Systems" (19 citations) laid the groundwork for flexible design and manufacturing, while his recent experiments on collaborative robots (5 citations) provide critical insights into human trust, anxiety, and workload in shared workspaces. Pedrazzoli also advances modular human-robot applications based on the IEC-61499 standard, aiming to deploy mutualistic, continuously adaptive human-machine interaction on the digital shopfloor. His work is instrumental in creating safer, more efficient, and human-centric smart factories.