MMassimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi (president and administrator of Area 302) graduated in physics from the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland, in 1989. From 1990 to 1991, he served as an Assistant in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva (UNIGE). In 1992, he joined the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a Ph.D. candidate and received his Ph.D. in physics in 1995. Since 1996, he has worked in the private sector while pursuing research as an independent scholar. In 2016, he became a Research Fellow at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). From 2010 to 2026, he was also Director of the Laboratorio di Autoricerca di Base (LAB) in Lugano, Switzerland, and Editor of the journal AutoRicerca. His research focuses on the foundations of physics, quantum cognition, and consciousness studies. He has authored essays, popular science books, and children’s stories, and has published more than eighty research articles in international journals.

He is the President of the company Area 302, whose mission is the promotion and organization of courses, seminars, conferences, congresses, and other activities of scientific, educational, cultural, artistic, and social value.