Francesco Alberti is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, where he is currently in charge of the Laboratory of Urban Planning and Design at the 5-year Master's Degree Course in Architecture, and of the course “Smart City Planning” for the postgraduate programme “ABITA” (Bioecological Architecture and Technological Innovation for the Environment). In the same Department, he is the scientific coordinator of the research unit "SUP&R" (Sustainable Urban Projects & Research) and of the related university spin-off "Urban LIFE” (Urban Liveability & Innovation for Everyone). He is in charge of the role of Mobility manager for the University of Florence and a member of the University’s scientific team at the spoke “Urban Mobility” of the “Nation Centre on Sustainable Mobility”, established in 2022 by the Italian Government with special funds from the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience. As a member of the Italian National Institute of Urban Planning (INU - Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica) he joined the National Commetees “Networks, Infrastructure and Innovation Policies” (2014-2016), “Urban Accessibility for Everyone” (2016-) and “Mobility, Infrastructure, and logistics” (2019-). From 2016 to 2022 he served as President of the Regional division of INU in Tuscany.