**Lucia Della Spina**

Architect, Ph.D, is Associate Professor in Real Estate Appraisals and Economic Evaluations of the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. Her research topics are real estate appraisal and multidimensional assessments in hybrid, collaborative, and interactive decision-making contexts, which are typical of urban design and territorial planning. She has developed experimental adaptive Decision Support Systems for the enhancement of cultural heritage and landscapes, for urban regeneration, and territorial transformations, integrating methods and tools specific to economic, multicriteria, and multi-actor assessments. She is the chief scientist and member of research groups of national and international research projects.

She was Visiting Professor at the School of Public Affairs San Diego University (USA); University of Salford, Manchester (UK); Universidade Tras-os-Montes Alto Douro - UTAD (PT); and University ´ of Granada (ES).

She is a member of the Italian Society of Appraisal and Evaluation (SIEV) and the Teaching Board for PhDs in Architecture. She is co-director of the scientific journal LaborEst, as well as being a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journals Valori e Valutazioni, Land, Sustainability, Buildings, and referee for national and international journals.

She is the author of over 100 publications and has presented papers at numerous international workshops and conferences. For the quality of scientific production, she has received the following international recognitions: "Top 2% Scientists of the world 2021", "Top 2% Scientists of the world 2020", and "Best Paper Award -Buildings 2017".

#### **Paola Pellegrini**

Paola is an Associate Professor at one of the main Sino-British universities in China. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Architecture and a PhD in Urbanism. Before moving to China, she lectured in Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, and the USA, where she was a Visiting Associate in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. For more than 15 years, she led several research projects focusing on urban sustainability and heritage, received several research grants, and developed a strong ability to apply for funding from the European Union Programmes. She has extensively published the results of her applied research.

She has a broad understanding of the dimensions of the Built Environment, combining theoretical and design perspectives and having a keen interest in developing interdisciplinary research to address contemporary challenges, such as climate change.

#### **Antonia Russo**

Antonia Russo received a PhD in Information Engineering in 2022. Now, she is working on the adoption of cybersecurity in a multinational company. She has dedicated herself to researching information security, privacy, and social network analysis. In 2021, Antonia was appointed as a Visiting Researcher at the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Radio Navigation Systems and Techniques Section, Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality (TEC-ESN). From 2020 to 2022, she co-led the Space Generation Advisory Council's Space and Cybersecurity Project Group.

#### **Maria Rosa Valluzzi**

Maria Rosa Valluzzi is Associate Professor in Restoration at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padova. She has a PhD in Civil Engineering and has taught on MSc and doctorate courses since 2000.

Her research topics concern experimental studies and the modeling of the mechanical behavior of existing structures; diagnostic and knowledge procedures; intervention measures; and seismic vulnerability analyses on masonry buildings, historical centers, and archeological sites. She is a member of several technical committees and research groups (ISCARSAH, RILEM, UNI, ACI), international research centers (CIPAR, CIRCe, CIBA, CIRGEO), and scientific associations involved in the restoration of CH (CRITERYA, SIRA, ARCo). She is the author of more than 400 publications and contributes to international recommendations (ACI-RILEM), databases, and software for the vulnerability analyses of masonry buildings. Rilem awarded her with the "Robert l'Hermite" medal in 2005 and made her a Rilem fellow in 2015.
