Massimo Fiorentini earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and completed his PhD at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia. His research focuses on designing, modelling, and controlling energy systems for buildings and urban districts to improve efficiency and sustainability. This includes developing advanced methodologies for indoor environmental control and integrated energy management, with particular emphasis on innovative sensing strategies, control architectures, occupant behaviour, and predictive, data-driven algorithms. Furthermore, he investigates the optimization of multi-energy systems - especially those incorporating seasonal thermal energy storage - to develop decision-support tools that identify the most effective energy system designs.