Silvia Pizzocaro is Associate Professor of industrial design at Facoltà del Design of Politecnico di Milano.
She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial design (Politecnico di Milano, 1994) and a Degree cum laude in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano, 1985).

Academic experience includes appointments as senior researcher and professor at Politecnico since 1996 for the Degree course in Industrial design and the Ph.D. programme in industrial design; research supervisor within the Department of Industrial Design of Politecnico; post-doctoral research fellow; co-ordinator for research projects funded by the European Commission; scientific co-ordinator and chair of the organising committee for the "Design plus Research " conference held in 2000 at Politecnico di Milano.

Principal areas of research interest are: theory of design, design research methodologies, the design of research into design, doctoral education in design.