Maria Luisa Germanà, Architect and Ph.D. in Recupero edilizio e ambientale (Building and Environmental Recovery). Full Professor of Technological Design of Architecture (Università di Palermo, Department of Architecture), has earned more than 30 years of academic and professional experience. She has held several institutional roles in her university and in the Italian Scientific Society of Architectural Technology (SITdA), in which she was promoter (and National Coordinator between 2013 and 2021) of the research Cluster devoted to the Architectural Heritage. Expert member of ICOMOS ICAHM (International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management) and of ICOMOS ISCHEAH (International Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage). She has been principal investigator of international and national research projects and she has more than 160 published books, chapters and articles. She has been invited as member of peer review board of national and international conferences, journals and scientific council of book series. She has gained an extensive teaching experience, tutoring more than 100 bachelor, master degree and Ph.D. students. Her main themes of research (Architectural Heritage; Environmental Design; Rural and Vernacular Architecture; Sustainable Building Materials; Refurbishment, Management and Maintenance of the Built Environment) are different facets of a holistic scientific interest, focused on the sustainability of the processes of formation, transformation and