Giuseppe Vignali graduated with 104/110 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Parma on 20/12/2004. He was a research fellow in Industrial Engineering at the University of Parma from July 2005 and a Ph.D. candidate from January 2006. On 25/02/2009, he received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. From 01/08/2007 to 28/02/2015, he worked at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Parma as Lecturer in the scientific field of Industrial System Engineering (ING-IND/17). Since 01/03/2015, he has been Associate Professor in the same scientific field. He obtained the national scientific qualification for the position of Full Professor in the scientific field ING-IND/17 in 2018. He is the author of more than 120 Scopus-listed papers (citations>1400; H-index=20).