Lorenzo Cantoni graduated in Philosophy and holds a PhD in Education and Linguistics.
L. Cantoni is full professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano - Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences, where he served as Dean in the a.y. 2010-2014. He is currently director of the Institute for Communication Technologies.
He is scientific director of the laboratories webatelier.net, NewMinE Lab: New Media in Education Lab, and eLab: eLearning Lab.
In 2013 has become chair-holder of the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI.
In 2014 has been elected president of IFITT - International Federation for Infor..