Marco Quaggiotto is a associate professor at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, where he obtained his PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication.

Since 2009 he has been a teacher at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches the degree course in Communication Design.

He focuses on Communication Design, with particular interest in the design of digital interfaces for the exploration of complex territories and systems. He carries out research on new cartographies, digital design and issues related to representation and interaction with data and knowledge organisation systems.

He is part of the research group in Communication Design for the Territory - DCxT, and of the research group Design and Translation - DET. Since 2011 he has been coordinator of DataInterfaces, an experimental collaboration lab between Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione ISI that combines the competences of Communication Design, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence to address open issues in the creation of tools for the exploration and communication of complex phenomena.