Fabiana Pirola is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering of the University of Bergamo (Italy) and Rector delegate for international research in economic and engineering area. Her research interests are Product Service Systems (PSS) engineering and operations, mainly focused on data-driven services and on decision-making processes, and smart manufacturing, mainly focused on modeling and simulation. In these areas she has been involved in several industrial and research projects, funded at Regional, National and European level.