Francesco is an architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In 2014 he completed his PhD at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He participated in different research programmes, collaborating with the Department of Urbanism at UPC in Barcelona and with Tongji University in Shanghai. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he worked for the last 10 years as a Registered Architect in Italy, as well as in Spain and China.