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Prof. Marco Casini is a leading academic in the green and smart building sector.

He is an environmental engineer with a PhD in environmental engineering and is Associate Professor in Technology of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome where, since 2002, he has been teaching in several masters', PhD, and graduate schools on subjects pertaining to energy and environmental sustainability for buildings. Since 2014 he is also professor at the Italian National School of Administration (SNA) - Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Master s degrees in Building Information Modeling , "Digital Twin and Artificial Intelligence. Digital technologies and processes in the built environment" and in Management of Heritage Real Estate , Member of the Teaching Council of the PhD in Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture and Member of the Technical-Scientific Committee on Sustainability of Sapienza University of Rome. He also has been Director of the Sapienza International Summer School BIM and GIS for digital integrated design and Faculty Advisor and Project manager of Team Sapienza participating in Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018.

Prof. Casini's area of expertise concerns sustainable architectural design and construction, focusing on advanced materials, technologies and strategies for smart buildings and smart cities. He has worked as scientific coordinator and principal investigator on major projects, including the development of Italian national system for the certification of environmental sustainability of buildings - Protocollo ITACA and the preparation of the Sustainable Energy Action Plan of the city of Rome.

Prof. Casini's activity includes international scientific and technical consultancy on technological, environmental, and energy aspects related to the design and construction of high-performance buildings, as well as training on green building and smart cities strategies and policymaking for Italian public authorities (Prime Minister's Cabinet, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Regione Lazio). Design activity includes Zero Energy, Green and Smart Buildings projects for new and retrofit interventions.

He has been a member of several public technical working groups (Italian Environment Protection Agency, UNI, Bank of Italy, and the Italian technical body of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces, Regione Lazio) for the development of specific standards on environmentally sustainable construction.

Prof. Casini is the Editor in chief of the scientific journal Ponte and member of the editorial boards and reviewer of several other international peer reviewed scientific journals in the fields of engineering and architecture. He carries out an intense scientific dissemination activity by participating as Keynote speaker in numerous international conferences.

He has authored over 80 scientific publications on building science and architecture technology, including 10 books among which "Smart buildings: Advanced materials and nanotechnology to improve energy-efficiency and environmental performance" (Elsevier, 2016) and Construction 4.0. Advanced Technology, Tools and Materials for the Digital Transformation of the Construction Industry (Elsevier, 2021).