Benedetto Rugani received his MSc on Ecotoxicology and Environmental Chemistry in 2007 and PhD on Environmental Chemistry in 2010, both from the University of Siena (Italy). Since 2010, he has been a researcher in Luxembourg, where he is now a Senior Research & Technology Associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). During the last 10 years, Dr Rugani has contributed to the improvement and combination of existing methodological approaches and indicators to assess the environmental impact of life cycle activities on the supply of natural resources and ecosystem productivity. His current research and project management activity focuses on developing modelling approaches and decision support tools for assessing ecosystem services, with a focus on urban systems.