Luca Pezzati received the degree in physics from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1990, and the specialization in Optics, in 1995. Since 1995, he has been with INO-CNR (the National Institute for Optics of the National Research Council of Italy, http://www.ino.it) where he is Head of the Research Unit in Lecce. He started the Gruppo Beni Culturali (Art Diagnostic Group) of INO in 1998 and coordinated it for 14 years. He has managed many research projects for CNR in the field of optical technologies applied to Cultural Heritage. In 1998, he started the “Optical Metrology Laboratory for the Diagnostic of Cultural Heritage” at OPD-Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, an infrastructure operated jointly by INO and OPD. He is coordinator of the H2020 Integrating Activity: IPERION CH—The Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure on Cultural Heritage (http://www.iperionch.eu), and National Coordinator for Italy in DARIAH-ERIC (http://it.dariah.eu). Among his research interests: optics applied to the safeguard of Cultural Heritage; optical metrology; 3D-measuring optical techniques; optical systems design; data-analysis techniques and scientific software design.