Vittorio Cipolla graduated in 2006 in aerospace engineering at the University of Pisa (Italy), with a thesis on the aerodynamic design of an ultra-light aircraft with unconventional box-wing architecture, known as “PrandtlPlane”. In the same year, he started the PhD course in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Pisa, and between 2008 and 2009 he was selected for the Fulbright-BEST (Business Exchange and Student Training) program at the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship of Santa Clara University (CA, U.S.). In 2010, he concluded his PhD with a thesis on high altitude–long endurance UAVs powered by solar energy. Between 2011 and 2021, he participated in several research projects, including “IDINTOS” (Light Amphibious PrandtlPlane), “HYPSTAIR” ("Development and validation of hybrid propulsion system components and sub-systems for electric aircraft"), “ACAS” (Autonomous Collision Avoidance System for Remotely Piloted Aircraft”), “PARSIFAL” (PrandtlPlane Architecture for the Sustainable Improvement of Future Airplanes), and “PROSIB” (Hybrid propulsion systems for fixed and rotary wing aircraft). Since 2018, he has been an assistant professor at the University of Pisa, where he teaches applied aeroelasticity in the M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering course.