Architect, PhD in engineering, HDR (habilitation) in Computer Science, Livio De Luca is research director at CNRS (french national centre for scientific research) and director of the MAP (Models and simulations for architecture and cultural heritage) lab. Scientific advisor and member of several national (Culture3DClouds, ANR Monumentum, Fiat Lux,.) and international (3D-ICONS, MC_ITN- DCH,.) research projets, his research activity focuses on digital surveying, modelling and representation of architectural heritage as well as on the design and implementation of semantic-based information systems for describing, analyzing, documenting and sharing digital representations of heritage buildings. As member of international scientific committees and working groups for the digital documentation of cultural heritage, he served as general co-chair of the UNESCO/IEEE/EG DigitalHeritage international congress in 2013 (Marseille) and 2015 (Granada). He has been awarded the “Prix Pierre Bézier” of the “Fondation Arts et Métiers” in 2007 and the “Médaille de la Recherche et de la Technique” of the “Académie d’Architecture de France” in 2016.