Dr. Pinardi received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in mechanical engineering from the University of Parma, Italy, in July 2016, with a thesis on loudspeaker modeling, and a Ph.D. degree (Doctor Europaeus) in industrial engineering from the University of Parma, in March 2020, with a thesis on the design of microphone, hydrophone, and camera arrays for spatial audio and video recording. He has been a research assistant to Prof. Angelo Farina at University of Parma since 2016, mainly specializing in spatial audio, the design of transducer arrays, acoustics simulations, and 3D auralization, applied to automotive field and underwater acoustics.