Massimo Vaccarini received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Artificial Systems in 2005 from the Università Politecnica delle Marche. There, he had a post-doc position from 2006 to 2008 at the DIIGA department of the same university, focusing his researches in model based predictive control, decentralized control, multi-robot coordination and control. Since 2009 he works as a senior research scientist at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, DICEA department. He has authored more than 70 scientific publications since 2004 and worked on several European (SEAM4US, MARTE, ENCORE, ENOUGH) and national projects. His main field of activity now covers: augmented and mixed reality, management and control of building systems, cyber-physical systems, construction digitization.