Roberta Melella is a Building Engineer and PhD student in Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering Systems, and an expert in the scientific sector ICAR/10 (Technical Design of Architecture) at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy). She is the author of numerous articles in scientific journals and contributions in international conference proceedings, especially regarding the sustainability of the building process and strategies to mitigate environmental pressures in the design of new buildings and the renovation/maintenance of existing building stock.