Francesca Maltinti earned a BS in Civil Engineering (1998) and a PhD in Land Engineering (2001) from the University of Cagliari. She is now a Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental Engineering, and Architecture at the University of Cagliari. Her work in teaching has resulted in lectures for the courses: “Road, Railway, and Airport Construction 1”, “Laboratory of Road Design”, and "Smart and Sustainable Transport Infrastructure" at the University of Cagliari. Meanwhile, her research has produced over 80 scientific articles and two textbooks on road geometry. She has participated in many international conferences, also as an invited speaker. In July 2022, she participated in the Staff Mobility for Teaching to Partner Countries program at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, where she established international collaborations. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Alexandria Engineering Journal, the World Road Association, and the Scientific Association of Transport Infrastructure. She received the best paper award for the articles: Maltinti et al., “Applying Building Information Modeling to Road Pavements Management” in: Gervasi O. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021, and Coni et al., “Thermal Performance of Ultrathin Multi-Functional Overlay” SURF 2022 The 9th Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics, September 12-14, 2022.