Diego joined the WSA as a UKRI/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postgraduate Fellow in 2023 to work as a Principal Investigator in the Decoding cities for informed decision-making: a digital twin approach for minoring territorial disparities and enhancing urban liveability (DECIDE) project. This project is a EU Horizon MSCA Actions Grant, funded by the UKRI Guarantee Scheme. Previously, he worked for a year as a research collaborator at the University of Pisa, Italy, in themes of urban mobility and decision support systems (DSS); currently he mantains a collaborative relationship with Pisa in the role of a technical advisor within the Horizon Europe "Digital Urban Transitions" EMC2 project. He holds an European Ph.D in Energy, Systems, Territory and Construction Engineering (University of Pisa), with a focus on Systems and Territory, in the interdisciplinary area of network analysis, economic development and territorial imbalances. He holds a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS- Brasil), and a bachelor degree in economics. At the University of Pisa, he co-supervised MSc students in the area of urban-regional analysis and disaster risk analyisis, where he also teached in the courses of Urban and Regional Planning, and Territorial Modelling (Graduate program in Civil Engineering, Master program in Building Engineering and Architecture).