Mario Malizia was born on September 6th, 1999 in Cosenza (CS). He obtained his Bachelor's degree in 2020 and graduated with honors in 2023 from Politecnico di Milano, specializing in Automation and Control Engineering. During his Master's studies, he focused on developing a Simulator-in-the-Loop for validating autonomous navigation stacks. In May 2023, he joined the mOve research group as a research assistant, where he concentrates on autonomous driving applications and simulations.