Raffaele Lafortezza is Full Professor at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. His research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and relate to the assessment of driving forces, interactions, and feedback mechanisms underlying ecosystem dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales. His research involves the development and use of remote sensing tools, including satellite images and LiDAR, GIS, multivariate statistical techniques and complex models accounting. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including two books on landscape ecology and GIS modelling: “Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes” (Springer, 2008) and “Landscape Ecology in Forest Management and Conservation” (HEP & Springer, 2010). During the past 20 years, he has acquired considerable knowledge and experience in global change issues, including landscape ecology and urban forestry, by coordinating and/or contributing to benchmark projects such as: GEORES (Italian Space Agency); CLEARING HOUSE (EU-H2020); GREEN SURGE (EU-FP7) and many others. Prof. Lafortezza has been invited several times as Visiting Professor/Researcher in top-level universities such as: the University of Cambridge, Michigan State University, the University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=lhwizP8AAAAJ&hl=it