Dr. Massimo Stafoggia graduated in Statistical Sciences in 2001, earned a M.Sc. in Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and a PhD at the Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, Sweden. He has been working as a biostatistician at the Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service, Italy, since April 2003. He has contributed to the planning and implementation of several environmental epidemiology studies at the Italian (SISTI, EPIAIR 1 and 2) and European level (HEAPSS, AIRGENE, ESCAPE, EXHAUSTION, ELAPSE, EXPANSE), aimed at investigating the relationship between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes. He has been Principal Investigator of the EU-funded project MED-PARTICLES: “Particles size and composition in Mediterranean countries: geographical variability and short-term health effects” (LIFE10 ENV/IT/000327) and co-P.I. of the Italian projects BEEP: “Big Data in Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology” and BIGEPI: “Use of BIG data for the investigation of the acute and chronic effects of air pollution in the Italian population”.