Roberto De Lotto received his PhD in Urban Planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 2001 and became an Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning in 2010 at the University of Pavia (Italy). Since October 2019, he has been president of the master's degree course “Building Engineering and Architecture” at the University of Pavia. Since 2013, he has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University, Shanghai. He is the author of 162 publications, tutor of 6 PhD theses, tutor of 176 master's degree theses, and director of UPLab (Urban Project Laboratory of DICAr, University of Pavia). In 2020, he won an EU Horizon2020 Grant for the project "RENergetic,"  Project ID: 957845, and is PI for the University of Pavia group. He won the Judges' Choice, Session Rural Resilience, ClimateCoLab from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Boston, in October 2015. He is a scientific consultant for Italian municipalities and metropolitan cities in urban and environmental planning and sustainable mobility. From 2015 to 2020, he was a municipality council member for city planning, mobility, infrastructure, and private buildings in Segrate. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Urban Planning and Development” of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCEs), ISI code: 04454J0. He was an Associate Editor from 2011 to 2015 and a reviewer for Sustainability, Land, and Urban Science.

Eng. Archt. Caterina Pietra is a Post-doc Researcher in Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of Pavia University and has collaborated with the Urban Project Laboratory (UPLab), whose director is Professor Roberto De Lotto, since 2018. In the 2022–2023 academic year, she was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in Urban Planning at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of Pavia University. In June 2022, she received her PhD in "Design, Modeling, and Simulation in Engineering" from Pavia University's Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) by presenting a thesis titled "Healthy City: An Ontological Understanding." In June 2018, she obtained a Double Master’s Degree in Building Engineering and Architecture from Pavia University and in Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, where she discussed a thesis entitled “Heritage Conservation and Urban Regeneration: New Challenges in the Industrial Context along the East Bund of Shanghai." As part of the VI cycle of the Double Degree Program, she spent her last academic year at Tongji University in Shanghai (A.Y. 2017–2018) at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP). From October 2019 to December 2019, she spent a PhD research period at the College of Design and Innovation (D&I) of Tongji University in Shanghai.

Eng. Archt. Matilde Sessi is a scholarship fellow at the Urban Project Laboratory (UPLab), Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia. She graduated in Building Engineering-Architecture at the University of Pavia with a thesis titled "Valorization of Chilean Mining Heritage: A Proposal for Sewell Mining Camp,"  conducted at the Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago de Chile. From December 2020 to November 2023, she worked on the topic of “Preparation of territorial databases for the definition of settlement scenarios, urban planning forecasts, and land use for the reduction of environmental impacts and risk factors." Starting in December 2023, she's focusing on the research topic "Interaction models in the decision-making of green actions in urban settlements.".

Elisabetta Venco is an engineer and architect and is currently a senior researcher in urban planning at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia. She teaches urban planning courses at the University of Pavia. She is the author of numerous articles in national and international scientific journals on the topics of flexible, sustainable, and safe cities; territorial and advanced urban planning for the reduction of natural risks; and methodological approaches to encourage and implement energy communities in urban contexts.