Mattia Neroni is a currently Postdoc in Industrial and System Engineering at the Department of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Parma and a Visiting Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and an M.Sc. in Management Engineering. His main research interests include simulation modeling, algorithms, and machine learning applications for the optimization of logistics and production systems. Occasionally, he also works on automation, project management, and lean production. He is coauthor of 15 papers published or accepted by international journals/conferences indexed in Scopus. His orcid is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4507-4789, and his is email address is mattia.neroni@unipr.it.