Claudio Guarnera is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York and a Senior Researcher at NTNU in Norway. His expertise is in computer graphics, computer vision, color appearance, and applied perception, with experience both in academia and industry. 

Claudio Guarnera is also Senior Consultant at Lumirithmic. Prior to joining Lumirithmic, Claudio was a Senior Research Consultant, working on fabric appearance acquisition in collaboration with KiSP Inc, a Toronto-based software and design services company.

Claudio began his research career in computer graphics as a visiting researcher in the Graphics Lab of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, followed by postdoctoral research experience at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy and at Loughborough University in UK, working on color and material appearance.