Jürgen Assfalg holds a Master Degree in Electronics Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science. He’s been a research associate and adjunct professor at the University of Florence until December 2003. His research interest during this period have been in the fields of virtual reality, image and video processing and management, human-computer interaction, and systems and software engineering. During the same period he’s been involved in several EU funded projects. Since 2004 he’s been responsible in IT department of Provincia di Florence (now Città Metropolitana di Firenze) for development and maintenance of the whole IT infrastructure, with a strong focus on innovation. Since 2009 he’s been the technical leader of ITS and smart-mobility projects carried out by Città Metropolitana di Firenze.