Prof. Fabrizio Cumo is a Full Professor of Digital Systems for the building process and project management at the Faculty of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interest relates to the building process, digital  technologies applied to the the built environment and project management. He is also the scientific head of numerous research projects in the energy-environmental field. He graduated in nuclear engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1992 and earned his PhD in 1996. In 2016, he became the Director of the CITERA-Interdepartmental Centre for Territory, Building, Conservation, and Environment at "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He was a Member of the Italian Commission for receiving EU Directive 2002/91/CE for the Ministry of Environment for the use of energy in residential areas and the use of renewable sources (2004). He is a member of the Apulian Academy of Science.