Dr. Salvatore Piro is a research director in the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage. From 2012 until present, he has been a professor of applied geophysics at the Earth Science Department of Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include the acquisition and processing of integrated geophysical methods for near surface investigations. He is a member of SEG, EAGE, Near Surface Geophysics, EGU, EEGS, and ISAP. He is also Associate Editor of the journals Near Surface Geophysics, Archaeological Prospection, International Journal of Geophysics, and Journal of Archaeology.