Prof. Francesco Causone is an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He holds a master's degree in architecture and a PhD in technical innovation for the built environment, and he is a LEED AP. He was awarded the REHVA Young Scientist Award in 2012. He has gained world-class industry experience as a sustainability researcher at Foster + Partners in London. He is a partner in several European research projects focusing on the development of energy, environmental, and housing services. He has been PI of the nationally funded URBEM project for the development of a national database of building archetypes for UBEM simulations. He has been PI of several projects funded by the Italian Energy Agency (ENEA) on the monitoring of energy performance of zero-energy buildings in the Mediterranean climate, on the assessment of outdoor comfort in cities, on Renewable Energy Communities (RECs), and on the development if digital databases for building energy management. From 2007 to 2010, he coordinated a team for the design of a multi-functional sustainable center in Italy, winning the competition. In 2018, he served as an environmental expert on the Co-Inventing Doria team in the international Reinventing Cities call promoted by C40, designing a carbon-neutral hostel. He has been a visiting professor at Paris EST and at Tongji University (Shanghai) and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge.