Patrizio Pelliccione (male) is a Professor in Computer Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI). His research topics are mainly in software engineering, software architecture modeling and verification, autonomous systems, and formal methods. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of L’Aquila in Italy. Thereafter, he worked as a senior researcher at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg, then assistant professor in the University of L’Aquila in Italy, then Associate Professor at both Chalmers | University of Gothenburg in Sweden and University of L’Aquila. He has been on the organization and program committees for several top conferences and he is a reviewer for top journals in the software engineering domain. He is very active in European and National projects. In his research activity, he has collaborated with several companies. More information is available at http://www.patriziopelliccione.com.