Prof. Dr. Francesco Pilla is a Full Professor of Smart and Sustainable Cities at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policyin University College Dublin and the coordinator of the “iSCAPE-Improving the Smart Control of Air Pollution in Europe” project. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011 and then worked as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin from 2012 to 2016. His work focuses on understanding complex environmental phenomena in order to preempt the impacts resulting from interactions between the the human population and the environment.