Mirko Viroli is Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the DISI department (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) of the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (UNIBO), in Italy. In UNIBO, he is Director of Second Cycle Degree of Computer Science and Engineering, delegate of Technological Transfer for DISI department, and vice-dean of the Engineering School. He is an expert in foundations of computer science and programming, object-oriented programming, advanced software development, software engineering and self-adaptive/self-organising pervasive computing systems, and regularly teaches courses on these subjects. He is author of more than 250 papers, of which more than 60 on international journals. His GoogleScholar h-index is 42 with >6000 citations, his Scopus h-index is 29 with >3000 citations. He is member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Software magazine, and was program chair of IFIP COORDINATION 2015, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008 and 2009), and IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems (SASO 2014) conferences. He has been UNIBO leader of projects granted with overall >800K Euros, among which he was team leader in the FP7-STREP project “Self-aware pervasive ecosystems” (SAPERE).