Matteo Barbari has served as a full professor since November 2005 and has been associate professor at the Department of Agricultural and Forest Engineering of University of Firenze, since 1992. He has been the head of the Department of Agricultural and Forest Engineering (years 2003-2009), Department of Agricultural and Forest Economics, Engineering, Sciences and Technologies (years 2010-2013) and Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems (2013-2016). He is member of AIIA (Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering), CIGR (International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering), EurAgEng (European Society of Agricultural Engineering) and ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers). He has been scientifically responsible of many projects funded from different institutions (ERA-NET SUSAN, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuscany Region, Emilia Romagna Region, different public bodies, private organizations). The scientific activity of Prof. Barbari is documented by more than 330 published articles or papers.