Prof. Dr. Sauro Longhi holds the position of Full Professor of Automatic Control at the Università Politecnica delle Marche and President of the Society of Professors and Researchers on Automatic Control. Since May 2014, he has also been President of the GARR Consortium, the Italian national IT network for universities and research. From 2013 to 2019, he was the Rector of Università Politecnica delle Marche. His research interests include modeling, identification, and control of linear and non-linear systems; control of mobile robots, submarine vehicles, ships, and unmanned aerial vehicles; cooperative control of autonomous agents and service robots for applications assistive to support mobility and cognitive actions; home and building automation; web technology on process control and remote control laboratories; decentralized control over networks; sensor networks; power management in hybrid cars; electric motor control; system-integrated control; management and control of renewable energy resources; efficient management of energy systems; and automatic fault detection and isolation. He has published more than 500 articles in international magazines and newspapers and is the author of four patents. He is a component of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the University Centre Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Engineering Faculty) for technology transfer and the creation of new high-technology companies in Ambient Assisted Living.