Dr. Francesco Aletta is a Lecturer in Building Physics and Soundscape at University College London. He earned his Master’s degree in Architecture (2010) and PhD in Environmental Design (2014) from the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (formerly known as the Second University of Naples). In 2013, he joined the Acoustics Group of the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate to work on developing soundscape methods within the EU-funded network “SONORUS”. He moved to Belgium in 2016 to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the WAVES Group, in the Department of Information Technology of Ghent University. There, he collaborated on several projects, including AcustiCare and C3Places, relating to both soundscapes and public spaces. He was a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University and the Polytechnic Institute of Turin in Italy, teaching about environmental acoustics and soundscapes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In 2018, he joined UCL IEDE as a Research Associate to work with Prof. Jian Kang on the Soundscape Indices project, funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme.