An Architect by education, Barbara E. A. Piga is Assistant Professor (RTDb) at the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) (2021 – 2024), where she is also Coordinator of the Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti - labsimurb (POLIMI - Department of Architecture and Urban Studies) since its foundation in 2007. She is also member of the Board of the interdepartmental research laboratory i.Drive - Interaction Between Driver, Road Infrastructure, Vehicle, And Environment since 2019, where she is responsible for mobility experiential simulation and the urban/landscape environment guidelines (assessment and design perspective). She is the POLIMI Coordinator of two European Projects H2020 EIT Digital (Digital Cities) AR4CUP: AR for Collaborative Urban Planning (2019 and 2020), where she designed a novel co-design methodology via AR and VR. In these projects, she developed an innovative methodology for (pre-)assessing the experience of people in space through simulation; this led her to the ownership of two Copyrights (Experiential Environmental Impact Assessment - exp-EIA©; Copyright BOIP N. 123453 - 06.05.2020 and N. 130516 – 25.02.2021) and of the International Patent for Invention "Method for calculating one or more isovists of a physical or Extended Reality environment" (N. 102021000017168 - 30.06.2021). She fosters a human-centered, multi-scalar, and interdisciplinary approach. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from POLIMI (2010).