Francesco Longo took his degree in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum Laude, in October 2002 from the University of Calabria. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calabria in January 2006. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering of University of Calabria. His research interests include Modeling & Simulation for Industry, Defence, Logistics and Cultural Heritage following different research projects in these areas. He is Director of the Modeling & Simulation Center – Laboratory of Enterprise Solutions (MSC-LES), a laboratory operating at DIMEG of University of Calabria. He has published more than 200 scientific papers on international conferences and journals participating as speaker and chairman to different international conferences. He participated as advisor to ICAMES from 2004 to 2015 (International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students, in Istanbul). He actively cooperates with many research institutions all over the world and he served as PI and Scientific Responsible for different research projects.He is Associate Editor in Chief of the Simulation: Transaction of the society for Modeling & Simulation International. He is Guest Editor and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling.During the last years he has strongly supported the organization of conferences in the area of simulation applied to Industry and supply chain. He is Program chair of Summer Simulation Multiconference (2012 and 2013), he is Vice General Chair of Summer Simulation Multiconference (SummerSim2011), General Co-Chair of the European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2008-2018), General Chair of the International Conference on Modeling & Applied Simulation (MAS 2009, 2010), Program Chair of the International Multidisciplinary Modeling & Simulation Multi-conference (2007 and 2008, 2011-2018).