**About the Editors**

**Rosa Ma Alsina-Pag`es** has served as Associate Professor in the Research Group of Media Technologies since September 2015, where she coordinates the Signal Processing Research Line. Since 2019 she is the Director of Research of La Salle – URL. She received her MSc degree in Electronics and in Telecommunications in 2002 and 2004, respectively, from La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona; she later completed her Humanities Degree in 2011 at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. In 2003, she completed a Project Management MSc Degree at La Salle – URL. She received her PhD in Telecommunications Engineering in July 2012 with a PhD thesis about signal processing in HF long haul link, completed at La Salle – URL (with honors). Her research interests are in digital signal processing, especially in acoustic and adaptive signal processing. From 2007 to 2015, she participated in several research projects on ionospheric communications with Antarctica. From 2016 to 2019 she was the team leader at La Salle in DYNAMAP, a LIFE+ project whose goal is dynamic noise mapping in urban environments. Nowadays, she is the principal investigator of CowTalk, a Llavor project funded by the Catalan Government, and SuaraMap, a CDTI project funded by the Spanish Government.

**Patrizia Bellucci** has served as Coordinator of Research and Development and Head of the Acoustics and Lightning Lab at ANAS S.p.A., the Italian Road Administration, since 2017 and 2000, respectively. She received her MSc degree in Electronics in 1992 and her PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a thesis on a novel sound absorption measurement system for road pavements based on a digital signal processing technique. In 2007, she also completed a European Project Management degree within the framework of the European project CERTAIN in Brussels. As national and European project coordinator, she leads and participates in research projects, laboratory activities, studies, and providing insights on specific issues. In this role, she has prepared numerous project proposals in collaboration with other national and foreign partners to access European funds within the LIFE program, VII FRAMEWORK PROGRAM, HORIZON 2020, TEN-T, PON RI and CEDR, both as coordinator and member of the consortium. In this context, she was awarded as coordinator of the LIFE13 ENV/IT/001254 DYNAMAP Project and took part in the EU-funded projects INFRAVATION, DYSTANCE, RAFAEL, INFRA4DFUTURE, and COST 354 "Performance Indicators".

**Giovanni Zambon** graduated in Physics in 1999 at the Physics Department of the University of Milan with a thesis entitled "The Acoustic Quality of the Strehler Theater in Milan: Analysis and Interventions". Since his appointment on 23 December 2004, he has served as researcher in Applied Physics at the Department of Environmental and Territorial Sciences of the University of Milan-Bicocca (DISAT). In this role, he has concentrated his research activity in architectural acoustics and environmental acoustics in relation to the evolution of the DISAT Physics Area programs. He has been the scientific director of numerous projects for direct assignment and public tender in the acoustic sector since 2003, financed by local, national, and international territorial bodies, in particular with the Lombardy Region, the Province of Milan, the Municipality of Milan, the Municipality of Pavia, ARPA Lombardia, CNR, Anas, and the European Commission. Since 2010, he has been in charge of the research group in Environmental Physics of DISAT. In 2018, he obtained the national scientific qualification (ASN) for the role of Associate Professor in Applied Physics (SSD-FIS/07). In August 2020, the competition for the call-up as Associate Professor at DISAT ended. In the 2004–2005 academic year, he held courses in Environmental Acoustics for the master's degree in Science and Technology for the Environment and the Territory and of the Applied Physics course for the three-year degree course in Environmental Sciences and Technologies. He has supervisd numerous doctoral theses and numerous degree theses. He has been Lecturer in various Master and workshop courses, including internationally. He has served as Director and teacher of the course for Competent Technicians in Acoustics at the University of Milan Bicocca. Since 2001, he has regularly participates, with presentations of memoirs (also by invitation), in the most important international acoustic congresses (Forum Acusticum, ICA, ICSV, Internoise). In some of these congresses, he was chairman of the section. Since 2001, he has regularly participated in the National Acoustics Congress organized by the Italian Acoustics Association (AIA). In some of these congresses he was chairman of the section.In 2008 he organized at Bicocca University, as Scientific Secretary, the Annual Conference of the Italian Acoustics Association.Since 2005 member of numerous commissions of competitions for the awarding of grants for collaboration in research activitiesFrom 2006 to 2016: Member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Environmental Sciences of the University of Milan BicoccaSince 2008 he has been Director of the Acoustics Service Center of Bicocca University (CESAB)Since 2012 member of the "Orientation", "Internship and Work" and "Didactic Planning" commissions of the three-year and master's degree courses of the DISAT.Since 2001 he has been a member of the Italian Acoustics Association (AIA).He is reviewer of a dozen scientific papersAuthor of over 100 national and international scientific works on the themes of environmental acoustics, architectural acoustics and soundscape.

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